I wanted to look up a quote, and bam! You've edited your post. *damns Etheri*
Yo, psh, let me make things clear atleast. D; Wasn't like i was editing an hour later >;
Apparently I don't. You don't have to be spoiled to want more: responding to what exterior factors bring to your life by changing your mindset isn't something I do; I see such behaviors as extremely moronic, it consumes independent thought, just like religion or parental values, regulations, rules and authority.
Independant thought is fine. Just realise you'll always have opinions, there's no way to bypass them. Might aswell keep your views rational and to the point. I realise I honestly don't need that rolex, far too heavy anyways. So I won't care nor want it, perfectly happy without. The diffrence between the examples you gave and what I try to do is that I have more control over these factors and my opinions, unlike people influenced by religion / parental values / etc.
Your definition of spoiled seems to mean "having more than nothing." That is an idiotic definition.
Finding the time to post here and moreover to THINK is a poorly thought-out excuse for your argument, often used by those "manly" types, who think that military "straightens you out." I think the same goes for the column linked with color as well.
And the fact that you're grabbing someone else's opinion about what YOU NEED, proves me that you have no opinion and/or it is distorted by external sources like that pyramid.
You don't know my life, therefore you can't know if it's easy; which is not. Get on with it.
I know more about you simply by the things you're posting than you'd expect. Ofcourse, claiming to actually know you would be arrogant, but you're the one seeing things in black and white thus far.
Let me try explain it -again-.
You have food. Every single day. You probably never even had to question if you'd get fed the next day or week. You have a home, shelter. Hell, you'll even inherit enough money to keep you alive for the next 10 years if it had to. Comfortable to western standards? No. But you'll never have to worry about genuinly primal instincts. You've got everything we
truly need to stay alive. Food, shelter... The reason you're on here is that you're fine on physical needs. They're satisfied. What you're trying to satisfy is your mind, just as I am. I'm sorry but in essence, you have
everything you
need. The rest only helps out in comfort, and you've got alot of that aswell probably (tho I cannot tell that with enough certainty.) If you have an internet connection and the time to waste all this time doing this, then your primal and genuine
needs are already taken care of. I'm not saying this is a bad thing, it isn't. It's simply saying that you already have all those things which a few
billion people struggle with every day. You have always had things which billions of people try to achieve every single day. Sounds pretty spoiled to me. You don't know what nothing is.
I don't need the steps of maslow for this, if you struggle to get fed and live in the dust, but spend your remainder of your time writing on here, by all means enlighten me for I misjudged you all along. Cooking is not a struggle, sorry.
It's rational to want more and enjoy the "more." You seem to see it either in black or white: either you want more and that is the life goal of yours, or you don't want anything at all, which is total stagnation.
We all want more, but I keep it in control and don't have the illusion that it is required in order to be happy. I realise you're happy, for short periods of time. I'm happy with equally much for longer periods of time. It doesn't bore me, I don't mind it. More happy, longer happy, while you need less for it... Are you sure i'm the irrational one?
For starters, boredom. You can't be happy if you're bored, you have to have stimuli, which is the opposite of boredom. To me - stagnation is bored, advancement and improvement is stimuli.
You see wanting more entirely blacked out. Try grey.
No, I don't. I too want more, I always will, too. But I realise that it's a lame excuse to be unhappy. I ALWAYS want more, why would that have to make me unhappy? Why can't I be happy while striving for the next big thing, be happy when I get it? It's just rescaling your axes. It takes time, it's not easy... But it works. In the end, it's nothing more than manipulating your emotions, is that so bad for a rational to do? I can't handle them either way.
Besides, most of the time, to me it goes like : Be happy while striving for something, be happy when you get it, then realise wanting it to begin with was stupid all along and be sad about it. Especially materialistic things... They change nothing much. "Do I really need these things?" vs "Do I really want them?" (Answers are No and Yes respectively.)
Illusions of my mind, constantly telling me to get more, telling me I need it. Why did I get these speakers if I prefer my headphones as they draw out the noise of the world around me? Perhaps I didn't know that before I bought them... But I kinda did.
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But yea, I agree that generally people do seek to be better than others.
