Contentment can evaporate quickly. We tend to compare other people’s lives to our own. We desire something other than the life we live.
The desires can be small, like wanting the newest electronic gadget or feeling jealous when someone else gets a different car. The desires can be large, like feeling overlooked when a friend gets the promotion you desired or finds themselves in a happy relationship when you are lonely.
Every day we are bombarded with cultural pleas for discontentment through advertising, through constant comparisons, and dissatisfaction with our stage in life.
Why is contentment elusive? Is it an illusion?