Why Dissatisfaction Is So Hardwired In Us?

Dissatisfaction Is So Hardwired In Us!

The surprising psychology of dissatisfaction is we humans possess duality. We are born to be boundless and yet we have chained our existence to a limited scope of life. Whole life we keep struggling between what we have achieved and our quest to seek beyond. The past that lingers on and the future is what the possibility is and the existence of man between the shadow and the dreams is what keeps them going.

The desire to explore something beyond is what keeps us always interested in life. When we tend to become satisfied with life, we lose curiosity, and that makes us restless. That monotony of being static brings boredom, negativity bias, and a feeling of stagnation.

As the eighteenth-century poet Samuel Johnson said, “My life is one long escape from myself.” 

The simple psychology of permanence of satisfaction and pleasure keeps us from the desire to continue seeking further or beyond.

Man is Janus-faced. He desires to be satisfied but he is never satisfied, so his quest for life keeps him desiring more. This feeling of dissatisfaction is so hardwired in us that we aspire to be somewhere and end up nowhere.

This duality, this diametrically opposite existence never makes a man satisfied in life. Satisfying one part of it makes the other part always dissatisfied. In a way when you satisfy a part of your being, immediately in that satisfaction dissatisfaction arises. The dual side of Satan and Divine exists coherently and will always pull you opposite to what you move to.

Life is an endless search…

As humans we can go on searching and on our way will find many things in life, but nothing is constant and nothing will satisfy our quest for life.

All that we desire will be a moment of illusion that is fulfilled but again we will be empty inside to seek more.

So to conclude, this duality is what makes life interesting. If we live mindfully, understanding the duality, we can create our balance by finding our center.

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