The focus on chasing happiness, often at all costs, disguises the ability to find contentment right where you are. Right now. We believe (we are told to believe) that happiness is somewhere else. Far, but not too far. Perceptible but slightly out of reach. To find it, one must chase it. But contentment, silent contentment, meets us right where we are. It tells us to slow down. To receive. To acknowledge the beauty of the present. That it asks us only to sit still for a moment is the very reason we want nothing to do with it. We disavow it because of its availability. Instead, we scamper about. Living in the future while forgetting the present. We should re-calibrate.
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