Satisfaction; the mother of feelings.

The feeling of satisfaction is a crucial one for humans but many people do not understand why, it is a feeling derived from being able to accomplish a goal at a particular point in life. It could be personal, probably you bought a land, started your business, graduated as a distinction student, or a group accomplishment that has to do with your team hitting their target and many others. We all usually find ourselves in a state of satisfaction as long as we are satisfied with the result of what we have applied effort, time, or other resources into.

The feeling of satisfaction is a complex one, I used the word "complex" because a lot of feelings are attached to it. It is a kind of feeling that houses other feelings and being able to obtain the feeling of satisfaction can help you to be happy, contented, inspired and it can even make you practice self-appreciation.

I mentioned earlier that the feeling of satisfaction is very important because not being able to feel it after an accomplishment sometimes attracts negative feelings like greed, covetousness, and many others.

I am sure we have heard crime stories involving some people and we will start asking questions like why will such a person involve in such a thing? The person might be famous, or wealthy and we will be asking questions like what else does such a person need in life to have gotten involved in such crime.

The thing is that they lack the feeling of satisfaction, not being satisfied attracts greed and covetousness which would prompt them to involve themselves in terrible things with the aim of achieving the feeling of satisfaction but in the end, they still can't get it.

I have always said that the feeling of satisfaction can only be achieved naturally and there is no other way to go about it if the feeling doesn't develop from self accomplishments.

I am the type who derives the feeling of satisfaction from even little accomplishments and that has helped me a lot to push on to achieve bigger things in life. I am lucky to have realized earlier in life that until we learn to appreciate smaller accomplishments, it will be difficult to do bigger ones or appreciate bigger achievements. Being satisfied brings me lots of happiness and for this reason alone, I am always eager to work towards accomplishing other things.

My family used to live separately for about a decade since we outgrew the small space we were living in. I voluntarily left home a few years after graduating from secondary school and my younger sibling left home years after as well. It was really tough but we didn't have a choice at that time than to take that shot.

I had a list of things I wanted to accomplish then and bringing my family to live together again was hot on the list but there were no means to get any of them done.

The first on my mind was to further my education because that was the only way to make the other things work out. I went from job to job until God answered my prayer and I was able to further my education. Graduating despite all the financial crises I went through in school was a big accomplishment for me.

I wanted more though but I was satisfied to an extent, I felt really happy and got the boost to push for more in life. I went on from getting a degree to hunting for a job and it took me about 2 years before I got one. I felt great about it even though it wasn't my dream job but it would definitely help me accomplish my next plan.

Bringing my family together was the only thing on my mind immediately after I could secure a job. We have lived separately for too long so I deprived myself of a lot of things just to bring the dream to reality.

It took me almost another two years to save enough money for the house, I got a three-bedroom apartment but couldn't live with them immediately because of my job. I go there on weekends to spend time with them and that was a big accomplishment for me. Having my family together under one roof made me happy and it gave me a clear mind to think forward.

I felt a great feeling of satisfaction and on that day, I was the happiest man in the world. The apartment was conducive and I could see the happiness on the face of everyone which was another source of happiness for me.

I eventually lost the job due to Covid and moved in with them to cut my expenses. We have lived as one happy family since then, reuniting has helped improve the bond in the family.

The feeling of satisfaction is something we must allow to flourish in us whenever we perform up to expectations. Once we allow it to flourish, we will be amazed at how many more positive feelings will accompany that feeling of satisfaction.