Maybe not so "NSish"

A change for now. After a hibernation period, i've decided to emerge from my NS shell, and not mumble anything abt army. Yea, i am going thru NS now, but its not gonna be the main show of my life. Probably because i am in signals now, but there must be something larger than army life. i.e. life itself. Ok so much crap to start with, in simple terms it means no more NS episodes, just my life now...

Satisfaction. Lets talk about it. have anyone ever felt long term satisfaction before? or is satisfaction always temporary? I believe that both sensations exists and there are really very different from each other. Long term satisfaction is the less commonly prevalent one, as satisfaction derived is often wiped off almost after a short period of time when our life goes on, and we pay attention to other details in life. Consider a graduate getting a well paid job just after his studies. U ask him, are u happy/satisfied? Definitely he will say yes. Try asking him after 2-3 yrs if he's still working there. Are u happy? Probably he'll say no because he has just got a tiff with his supervisor. That was what i meant. I'm not referring to just the day itself, probably u might say he got a bad hair day, or whatsoever. If u asked him about his stay in the company as of the 2 yrs, he might even give u a negative response. Yep, so satisfaction nv stays for long. As long as the environment changes, ur feelings for the external will change, and there goes ur satisfaction. Less satisfied.
So how about long term satisfaction? can it ever be achieved? since environment changes all the time? The answer is yes. Satisfaction is an emotion, it is something intangible. Something very delicate, something internal. It is subjective to change if uncontrolled or uncared for. Its something innate which u have to carefully attend to. Just like a carefully preserved artifact in a museum or a crucial experiment in a uncontaminated environment. What i am driving to is that, u have to identify with some kind of principle. Why are u satisfied? because u got a job? or becauseu are happy u've got something to do. Its the fundamental thinking and perception of life that determines whether u derive short term or long term satisfaction. U may be those that are just glad to have found a job. Ur expectation may be just to stay employed. Then u feel permanently satisfied as long as u dont get retrenched. However, one shld not mix this with low expectations. Low expectations is a sign of retreat and cowardice. It causes stagnation and makes u permanently satisfiend but also permanently unfulfilled in life. Some people just wish to live an auxerre life. Simplicity is their core value. But that cannot be matched to having a low expectation. That is their desire, their preferrence.
The main gist of assuming a fundamentaly thinking is to align our innate emotions with reality situations. It has nothing to do with expectation/aims, its just an inner state of the mind which allows us to feel the sense of satisfaction. That is exactly the only way to sustain our sense of satisfaction: to manipulate our inner perception, not lowering ourexpectations!

Well, maybe u did understand, or rather u understood partially, or there may be a chance u didnt even managed to read this sentence at all. but anyways, i think many of us are sad or dissatisfied with our lives just for this unnoticeable but yet important reason. So learn to be happy? Yea, we have to literally "learn"!