Life’s Details– Happy Contentments (photoWISH #16)

Posted by kairospix (Singapore, Singapore) on 6 January 2008 in Art & Design and Portfolio.

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Thanks to all for coming by yesterday and for leaving behind all your kind comments! Appreciate it!

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This will be my sixteenth and last post in respond to AM3 pblogger Dimitrios photoWISH project first posted here but I like the funny last call here!

It has been fun doing ths photoWISH project for the last 16 days! All thanks to Dimitrios for organising it!

Someone once taught that if you keep asking the question “What’s that to you?” or “Why?” in response to every wish or desire, you will eventually cover the root of all our wants and wishes.

Example:

“I want to be financially free.”
“Why?”
“Because then I can have all I want.”
“What’s that to you?”
“Well, I will not have to worry about being in want.”
“Why do you want to be free from worry of want?”
“Because then I’ll be trouble free!”
“What’s that to you, being trouble free?”
“Then I can live in peace and harmony.”
“Why do you want peace and harmony?”
“Well because it’ll make me feel good.”
“What’s that to you, feeling good?”
“I’ll be happy and contended.”

I haven’t tried this on any one but I sense there’s some amount of truth. May be you want to try it and see if the end answer is related to happiness and contentment.

If Paul of Tarsus once said, “Godliness with contentment is great gain” then surely contentment is definitely a gain worth seeking since “we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.”

So my last photoWISH for all would be much happy contenments in 2008!

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Location – Rubbish bin outside Hotel Le Meridien, Orchard Road, end nearest to traffic junction before the Istana, Singapore
Camera - Canon Powershot S5 IS
Lens - Canon 6.0 - 72.0mm (approx. 36 - 432mm)
Capture date - 29 December 2007
Aperture - f3.5
Shutter speed - 1/1250 sec
Shooting mode - Aperture Priority
Exposure bias - 0EV
Metering mode - Pattern
ISO - 80
Focal length - 6.0mm (approx. 36mm with Macro)
Stabilization - Hand held
Lighting - Outdoor Natural Light
Flash - Not Fired
Post-processing - PS & LRoom processed
Cropped - No

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Comments (11)

David from Glasgow, United Kingdom

What a contented smile. Great composition - like the shadow.

6 Jan 2008 12:13pm

Walt from Scarborough, Canada

Being content is a difficult concept - I am often troubled by how much I WANT things - things I seldom need (my camera comes to mind)...nice photo.

6 Jan 2008 1:53pm

tyan from Singapore, Singapore

lovely angle dude!Thats why we are in such a mess,discontentment is the culprit.

6 Jan 2008 3:28pm

felia from Singapore

I wonder if the first one is possible. Can one ever be financially free? When one earns more, the higher the expenses become. If one could be financially free, then why would they still be out there giving talks about how to earn big bucks. Aren't they thinking how to make more money? If they don't, won't they be bogged down by debts or financial demand? I wonderif human can ever be satisfied...Or it is just me who can never be satisfied!

6 Jan 2008 3:29pm

@felia: Yes it's possible. The basis of human freedom is being able to make choices. And the most fundamental foundaiton of expressing that choice is how we choose to think.
When we say we have no choice it's because we choose (see choice is always there) to be enslaved by our underlying beliefs and thoughts about what will give us contentment. Contenment is a state of mind and soul.

Higher expenses? We choose to spend more on more expensive stuff. A meal at $4 and one at $40 both a can satisfy the stomach.

Bogged down by debts or financial demands? Debts - we let it happen. So again it's a choice - to live outside our means. As for financial demands, some of which may not be ours directly, we choose to let it take place. For example, sometimes we continue to let others be overly dependent on us because we think we must provide at a certain level if not then we are seen as irresponsible. But question is are we at the same time letting the other party become irresponsible for themselves, becoming too dependent on us? Are we also too overly concern of how others view us if we do not take care of their finances at their level of expectation? There's always a choice of how we view things and they are influenced by our underlying beliefs and convictions. That's where we have to examine to see if these beliefs and convictions are reasonable, fair and most importantly realistic. When we don't feel contented there's always some underlying reason to examine for unrealistic thinking.
Beware of emotional thinking (allowing feelings to be the only basis of our thinking) which can cloud out what we know as reasonable, fair and realistic. We always have a choice how we think, the emotions we choose to dwell on and finally the actions we take. :)

P.J. from United States

Ha! That's a cute image. Nicely done!

6 Jan 2008 5:59pm

jump from Strasbourg, France

Happy new year to you :))

6 Jan 2008 6:49pm

felia from Singapore

Choice theory; we always have a choice! Thanks for the reply...:D

7 Jan 2008 1:31pm

alla from Toronto, Canada

sometimes I think love is the root of everything, we want to love (which is 'free') and we want to be loved (which we have to work on, ie - get a better car, bigger house, look beautiful, etc.. then we think people will love us more)

7 Jan 2008 3:59pm