Tag: satisfaction

Objects of Desire

You don’t need anything to experience joy You can’t always get what you want But if you try sometimes, well, you just might find You get what you need —The Rolling Stones As a hard-working, ambitious, rational person, you prefer hard facts to fluff. So allow me to share two formulae with you: Dissatisfaction∞Unmet Desires (dissatisfaction is directly proportional to unmet...
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Simple Fools

Ten years ago, as an intern, I was sent to a small village about 60 miles from Mangalore for a mandatory “rural posting.” It was a foreign world and I, a young and relatively affluent city-dwelling fellow, thought that the month was a terrible imposition. One evening, I was walking around the village market and came across a small shack where tea was sold. A group of old men were gathered around a rickety table....
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