Pulsar Beat bro,

Completely agree with you. I get tired of seeing this Western culture of dissatisfaction taking over the world. Even Obama came to power on the basis of 'change.' Change, change, change. Nothing is ever good enough. Nothing has ever satisfied. The culture of corporate marketing culture is all about spreading this dissatisfaction as well. Make people dissatisfied with their weight, their look, their social status and sell them products that they think will give them satisfaction.

At least this is not the way I want to live my life. I want to be a satisfied person.

It is like the serenity prayer says: accept the things you can change and the things you can't change and pray for the wisdom to know the difference.

But being dissatisfied about everything...all of the time...is clearly not the answer.

We need to find inner peace and satisfaction within ourself. We have to accept that externallity of the world, our parents, our friends, the amount of money we have will never give us full satisfaction. We have to find inner peace. This is what all the sages, rishi, munis have been teaching for centuries.

It is when we forget the essence of this teaching that we get carried away by the latest politician eager to get into office who spreads his brand of the latest dissatisfaction. Or the latest corporation. We need to immunize ourselves against external dissatisfaction by finding inner satisfaction.

If we find this inner satisfaction then our parents will be respectworthy. Nepal will look beautiful. Our wife will look sexy and our children obedient. And without that inner satisfaction nothing will ever look right.

I am not saying that I am always satisfied all of the time. But at least it is good to know what the ideal should be, or what? The ideal is an inner state of mind and heart and a quality of being. It is not an external state of the world or Nepal or our parents being a certain way.

As long as the world needs to be perfect before we are satisfied....we will always be .