The most rare thing seen in this world??- if this is the question to be asked then nothing can better suit or take the place as "Self-satisfaction".
Friends go back to your very early days when u were a baby, you had nothing with you no friends, no knowledge of how to keep yourself, not aware of what you want ,what you dont want, all on dependency but still u were happy, you had the power to make yourself happy which surely you wont now, you were so content full that time right?? But now you have money, u have friends, u have no that dependencies, you have all the facilities to lead a perfect life but still life is not perfect, you are not happy with yourself, you have no power now to make yourself happy, no contentment na?? why friends where is it going wrong. See in your childhood days you will be sitting outside in the mud and playing with mud, eating mud and even infact throwing stones , while doing it you will so dam happy right, but the moment mom sees you "No beta u should not do this, its not gud........" , the contentment and the happiness is lost. But i don't mean mom was wrong. She was right and always will be ....... a part of it was lost in understanding what is right and what is wrong. But after knowing what is right where the hell is remaining thing going wrong. I reason out that it may be because of not making the research on reason of our birth and lack of intrinsic motivation.
Once there was the huge family of crows living happily on the huge banyan trees in the thick forest. Among them two of the crows were waiting for their baby to hatch out of the egg. And very soon they got the new member in their family. And these mother and father used to leave the young one in the nest and go for hunting food, during that time a flock of peacocks used to come there for their hunt and used to enjoy dancing in the rain by opening their long beautiful feathers. The young crow daily used to wait desperately for peacocks. The crow started going mad of peacocks. It slowing started developing the feeling that i should also luk like them. And one day it told its mom regarding the same, but the mom said "the way we are, we are gud". But the baby crow was not in a state to listen. The next day when the peacocks were back to their homes after enjoyment, the baby crow went and collected the handful of beautiful peacock feathers which fall off from the dancing peacocks. Then next day when the peacocks were there, the baby crow pricked the feathers into its feather and joined the group of peacock. The peacocks were happy seeing that, because they taught it was the gud chance to laugh on crows, so peacocks told the baby crow that it was looking very beautiful that too much more than them. The baby crow was very happy. Once the elder crow returned, the baby crow told that hence forth it will join the peacocks and it cant stay with black people. The peacocks laughed at the crows like anything. And the baby crow went with them. The crow family was very sad and were also in a guilt of having such a kid. The sorrow days of crows started rolling down, after few days they saw the baby crow walking back to their place alone!!!!. The baby crow was trembling with no energy to stand, as the peacocks found their food alone and had alone. They didn't share the food with all as crows did. And the baby crow was not at all familiar with finding food. The mother crow hugged the baby crow and made it settle down. That day the baby crow came to know the worth of being crow and also the worth of being peacock.
Hmmm this is what called as intrinsic motivation. It is motivation of oneself for being satisfied with what they are. The same happens in our life friends. Take the simple example when u buy a new dress, u r very happy and wear it to office, and to your dam surprise your colleague is also wearing the new dress. Her dress looks much pretty for u than yours. And start cursing yourself for not having that. But in that situation why to depress the feeling of "i am wearing a new dress which i like". why the hell we always keep on solving problem rather than celebrating the achievements.
Let me take the other most common situation, the boy very keen and well interested in playing cricket but still they are made to opt for a gud software engineer role, just because its secure, just because the people around him want to see him in that place. Its fine that the job makes your life secure. But opting that job at the cost of one s happiness, one s satisfaction, one s contentment is not at all worth friends. Do something which makes you happy. Do something which make you live your life. choosing the job which u like to do is not selfishness, its self-satisfaction. Don't be want others want you to be in life, be want you want to be.
Life is unpredictable and complicated too with ups and down. And this creates lots of instability among oneself.The only way to maintain composure is by seeking and eventually achieving self-satisfaction.