The things that annoyed her were annoying her, increasingly. The more niggled she was, the more niggled she became until she was seeing things as unacceptable that were never that. Discontent bred discontent but to that process, she was blind. She saw the safety within ‘now’ as simply boring and unacceptable. She was looking for reasons to jump when jumping was the last thing that would be good for her. In her own mind, she elevated the less, the bad, and the need to be improved so that she could pave her way out. She wanted to move on to bigger, better, greater and more never realising that those things are rarely as they seem.
The silky tongued one (the person, the job, the lifestyle, the item) seemed to affirm her and give her a sense of value and importance. They seemed to boost her towards more, encourage her to higher, and inspire her for greatness that would be recognised and seen. She became blind to all else but the whispers of all that would be ‘better if…’. She’d be a fool to jump towards what had become all encompassing, but she probably won’t see that until she has made the move.
Find contentment in ‘now’, in who you are and what you have.
Aesop’s The Fox and the Crab
A crab one day grew disgusted with the sands in which he lived. He decided to take a stroll to the meadow not far inland. There he would find better fare than briny water and sand mites. So off he crawled to the meadow. But there as hungry fox spied him, and in a twinkling, ate him up, both shell and claw.
Be content with your lot.
