Have you
ever been satisfied with something that you’ve seen, heard or felt?
Have you
well and truly accepted something as being exactly how you wanted it to be?
Have you
truly felt that there was nothing more to be added or removed from the object
of observation?
If you say
yes, then I urge you to think again.
I’m not
talking about things created by you but things you notice around you.
It is not
possible that you agree with something as it is without thinking of at least one
change that can be made to make the object better in some aspect. I’m not
saying this, the philosopher Plato is.
He says that there is an ‘ideal world’ somewhere with the perfect dimensions of everything we see, hear and smell around us. What we see in this world are just variations of the perfect things in the ideal world.
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He says that there is an ‘ideal world’ somewhere with the perfect dimensions of everything we see, hear and smell around us. What we see in this world are just variations of the perfect things in the ideal world.
But we do
manage to find some things perfect. It rarely happens, you must agree, but it
does. But, is it really so? Do we really find perfection at all? Or do we
compromise? Do we accept something close enough to our own idea of the ideal
world to be perfect? Is it possible?
I may be
treating this theory all wrong but it really brings me to the idea of
dissatisfaction and the lack of perfection in our perception to the things
around us.
In this
imperfect world, does compromise rule our lives? Are we just content living
with the discontent that comes with everything that doesn’t meet our standards?
Are we so used to being dissatisfied that it has become the natural state of
the human mind?
Elders
teach us to be satisfied in what is there and others tell us to live in the
moment, enjoy life as it is but if that is true, aren’t we actually living a
lie?
It is true
that we cannot have everything according to our own standards because if that
could happen, chaos would run rampant in this world.
But then
how do we become well and truly satisfied?
Can science
answer that?
Can faith?
Can
philosophy?
Well, I
sure as hell cannot.
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