Introduction

A relatability of feeling that it’s never enough no matter what you do or achieve. Will it ever be?

Satisfaction

The closest feeling I would able to relate to most people is the fullness you get after a good meal. You feel satisfied then when you wake up the next morning you’re hungry again and chasing the next meal. Something materialistic would be waiting for a few months,saving up and finally getting the item then the feeling of “oh that’s it?”. It’s some sort of hedonistic treadmill that we’re all on. But now what if you don’t care much about materialistic things, and choose to focus on other things?

Some people worship other things. We all have a desire for something and we usually aren’t satisfied until we get the desire. I think most people working on their ideas and visions have some sort of relatability. The long hours you put in, the more knowledge you consume, there’s always more. It’s always running at the back of your mind running like a background task solving something and awaiting to be activated. There’s some sort of bitterness that comes with it. I can’t say for everyone if it’s worth it but I think it’s a good thing to have.

Hunger

The hunger before the satisfaction is a driving factor. What people fail to realise is that we enjoy hunger. Ever doom-scrolled on social media for 5 hours straight, then it’s like 1am and you’re like “What did I just do with my whole day?” and then you get a burst of motivation? If life felt complete and there’s nothing that drives the human race no advancements would be made. That’s why life crises emerge. Start questioning your identity and the “What have I been doing with my life?”.

The philosophical aspect called the “Ubermensch” or overman in English. It’s a concept by Friedrich Nietzsche. It’s applicable to this topic because it’s about taking challenges as an opportunity for personal growth and creating meaningful personal values. Hence it’s useful for driving the hunger.

Ever thought that isn’t it kind of crazy that humans have the drive to go to space, develop artificial intelligence and a lot more crazy things. It’s the belief in that meaning and value that drives them. It’s similar to what the tech entrepreneurs are. They could retire, live on an island, drive fast cars and all of that jazz. But they decide to wake up and work on their ideas. I keep seeing posts where people are like “How can you be so depressed when you’re so rich and have everything?” but it was never about the money. The missing piece to the puzzle. A few months back, before I even read Thus Spoke Zarathustra I encountered something similar where I really wanted to intern at this company and I didn’t care if I had gotten paid. I just really wanted the opportunity to work on something that I was interested in.

It’s quite a beautiful thing when I also see it in other people, the crazy ideas and thoughts that makes them work towards it. It radiates a certain energy and motivates and inspires me to do the same.

Pursuit

I think the pursuit of the action is more fun. It makes the achievement of getting it feel much more satisfying. It’s quite tiring and gruesome but I guess that’s what separates the greats from the normies, the ability to endure and be persistent.

Maybe you feel like you could have done it better or faster, but we won’t really know it until we try for that specific scenario. It’s like a game of chess, you can’t really predict the outcome until you make the move. Then you reflect, learn, iterate and adapt. It’s a form of growth that as humans we continuously iterate.

Everyday is day one. If everything was given on a silver platter, we wouldn’t appreciate it as much. Especially when the thing is a huge accomplishment. It’s the pursuit that makes it worth it. You learn the most lessons when you’re in a pursuit and continuously try new things. Doing something hard makes the feeling of accomplishment much greater.

Happiness

I’m not sure if there ever will be an answer that answers “How do I always feel happy and bliss eternally?”. Maybe be a monk, meditate give up worldly desires. With post-human modernism that seems quite hard to achieve.

Giving a hope towards a better tomorrow and optimism surely brings excitement and happiness to make us want to live another day. I keep remembering that video of elon musk saying “We got to be excited about the future, We got to do things that make us want to live, It cannot always be about problems everyday”.

Sunny days wouldn’t be special if it wasn’t for rain, Joy wouldn’t feel so good if it wasn’t for pain”

— “50 Cent