JUST A THOUGHT - DO HUMANS HAVE A NEED TO BE MISERABLE?

Not being aware of the essential mindsets of of people of all cultures.  Example, the Chinese, the Indians, Pakistanis, the Native peoples of the Americas and Australasia. 

It would be wrong of me to surmise that humans, as a specie, have an inherent predisposition towards becoming miserable. 

Looking at the Anglo-Saxons, however, it does appear that they do have a tendency towards becoming miserable. To be discontented, or, probably, more discontented with their conditions, than other cultures appear to be. 

And yet, might this tendency towards being discontented, dissatisfied. Not be the very attribute which is one of the most powerful locomotives which are driving the relentless quest for betterment in all economically, politically and socially advanced civilisations? 

This quest for better ideas, better technology, better ways of doing the mundane but essential things which we have to do daily?

So, instead of being satisfied with 'our lot', accepting it as 'fate', 'the will of god', we become dissatisfied and discontented.

We want to make it, our lives our living, better than they are. And so we rebel, rebel against those we hold responsible.  

The politicians, the landlords, the property magnets, the large conglomerates and the multinationals. We rebel against 'the them' who we hold responsible for our predicament. 

Be they humans or gods, and aspire towards making things better. But aspiration is not enough. 

The weather will not become more amenable and conducive to our happiness, if we only wish it to be so. The floods which washes away our crops, our livestock and our homes. 

Will not stop visiting us, if we simply accept that 'it is the way it is'. Famine will not stop visiting us if we only wish it to be so. 

And so we strive to find new and better ways of competing against these things which makes us miserable. 

So that we can move from a place of darkness to a place of light. From a place of destitution to a place of realised hope and aspiration. 

From a place of powerlessness to a place of empowerment, where being miserable or accepting miserableness as a norm, loses its virtue.

There are always going to be times when we are feeling miserable and discontented, but we should endeavour to avoid being their guests too often or for too long; less they become us. 

Channel your feelings of miserableness into something positive, so as to decrease its power of disempowerment over you.