Angelea Carrol, Crisis of Contentment

ANGELEA CARROL

There are different forms of simply existing: One that requires you to scramble from each moment to the next, without a pause for thought and emotion. The other leaves you restless, as you squander time waiting for a moment to happen. Each are a facade of contentment. Both are a trick that we have bought into; A lie that says a fulfilled life is unattainable.

There are times when the clock runs too fast, and others when the clock drags his feet, each tick more painstakingly slow than the last, And he seemingly refuses to finish the day.

Yet, could it be that there’s something more? We crave more. Just when we think we know it all, there’s more, and still there is nothing new. Could this be Among the great paradoxes of life? That within the inevitable discontent of life is where we find contentment? Fulfillment within the Striving? And meaning within the existence.