Does anyone else think that it's fucked up how humans always

The Phenomenology of Spirit.

Bhagavad Gita

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Bunp

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I don't see why wanting more has to be a bad feeling. There's two ways to approach dissatisfaction: either wallowing in the imperfect state or relating your emotions to your progress towards a better state. Suffering exists no matter what you do, so to be happy you just have to take joy in wanting to be better. This is why it's important to have hobbies, especially those with quantifiable levels of skill/progress. Literature can be difficult because you can't quantify being a better writer, but in other fields you can take pleasure in having a concrete goal that you're going to accomplish. Then literature can become your expression of emotions relating to other areas of your life, whether literally (my diary desu) or figuratively (my novel desu).

Basically the Buddha was lying, suffering never goes away. You just learn to enjoy it

OP, you may like these passages from Machiavelli's "discourses":

>Human appetites are insatiable, for by nature we are so constituted that there is nothing we cannot long for, but by fortune we are such that of these things we can attain but few. The result is that the human mind is perpetually discontented, and of its possessions is apt to grow weary. This makes it find fault with the present, praise the past, and long for the future; though for its doing so no rational cause can be assigned.

>Nature has so constituted men that, though all things are objects of desire, not all things are attainable; so that desire always exceeds the power of attainment, with the result that men are ill content with what they possess and their present state brings them little satisfaction. Hence arise the vicissitudes of their fortunes.

>>8695119
Personally, I think there's a huge difference between simply improving for the sake of progress or in selfless causes and improving because of dissatisfaction. It could be argued that discontent is required for the desire of improvement, but I think it's possible to be content with the state of things while still striving to make it better. You don't have to be only okay with the result of projects if they turn out well. I think the real trick is being accepting of failure while there's still a strive towards improvement. The Winter of our Discontent might be a good book on this topic, especially if you like lighter reading.

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Cloud Atlas is about this exact theme

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>>8695119

>Does anyone else think that it's fucked up how humans always want more, but are never satisfied?

Stop projecting, Schopenhauer.