Location Taken: Western Montana
Time Taken: October 2012
My brain is full of the odd state I get into when something major ends. I’ve spent a significant amount of today thinking “This is the last time I’ll see them” or “do that” or “be there”. But it’s not a sad recollection of regrets and lost opportunities.
You see, where others would get sad, I get philosophical. I spent an even larger portion of today thinking on such deep topics as the meaning of life, the purpose of happiness, the reasons for religion. Nothing overly specific, and I’m not too likely to get into them here since I’ve decided to keep politics and religion off of this blog. But my favorite topic of thought was contentment.
If given the choice between being forever content and forever happy, I think I’d go for content. Sure, happiness might feel better in general, but it tends to blind you to problems. Whereas, if you’re content, you can find all the little spots where you’re not quite as content as in general and fix them, improving the life around you as you go. In the long term, your content state will grow to be more pleasant than being happy and stuck where you started. And I have no idea if that made sense at all. Philosophic ramblings tend not to.
But today, I was content. And I am looking forward to whatever the future brings, no matter what form it takes. I will follow this road of life I am on, taking side paths as needed, and always be intrigued by what is around the next corner.
