TRYING TO FEEL BETTER

Our entire lives are spent trying to feel better.

So why do we feel miserable most of the time?  It is because we are seeking something.  But then either because we cannot attain what we seek, or because we attain it but find that it isn't what we thought it would be, or find that it is what we thought it would be but it doesn't last long, we are frustrated.

The solution, as obvious as it is but which we never seem to see, is to stop seeking, stop trying to do this, trying to have that, trying to be that.

Yet how realistic is it to stop?  The point to remember is that seeking, as such, is something we all do quite naturally; it's normal.  However, when the seeking causes us suffering, makes us unhappy, this is when we need to change, and when it is most realistic to do so.