A life spent reaching material or professional goals without stopping.

Since the time of the Greek philosophers there he wondered about how to achieve happiness or a balance between disappointments and successes, possibly tipping the scales towards the latter.

It is not at all regrettable that man seeks to improve himself, achieve material well-being commensurate with his inclinations, have a satisfying relational life and, to do everything this, you commit yourself every day.

This effort must then be repaid with the pleasure of taking advantage of the successes achieved, that is, it means taking the time to enjoy, quietly, what we have achieved.

Create a balance between effort and satisfaction, which must mix in such a way that one eliminates the other, in order to be able to start having goals commensurate with the desired satisfactions .

Another aspect concerns the exclusive centrality of the effort to achieve one's goals, as if that were the result of the effort itself, as if it were the one to determine the only reason to accomplish it.

The continuous search for goals and the sacrifices to reach them can leave bitterness once conquered, discovering that the longed-for desire is not enough to satisfy the search for satisfaction.

We live in a constant desire to have something ambitious, to be in some position of prestige but, once reached, we find ourselves not very interested in enjoying of what has been painstakingly sought.

Projecting one's life into a continuous, exhausting future, spending the time of one's life, which will never return, neglecting the everyday, as if time does not had an end.

There are ambitions and desires that never end and can keep you tied up forever, like an ox on a yoke to pump water from a well.

The ambition of wealth, expressed in the form of money or symbolic goods to be exhibited, the ambition of politics that makes one's figure important in the media, the ambition to exist on social networks through which infinite goals of followers are set, the ambition of sex that consumes relationships for people without having a limit, the ambition of work that expresses a search for affirmation along a scale that does not it never ends.

A race, most of the time, that always starts all over again, goal after goal, with a load of increasing dissatisfaction on the shoulders, until one day this could crush you.

Life, however, could be seen in an even different way, starting to understand that it itself has a limit and that wasting time to produce illusions and dissatisfaction is not the best way to go through it.

Living it satisfied or dissatisfied is always followed in the same way, perhaps with a different intimate result, avoiding that in our old age our mind presents us with an account looking back .

Considering what is useful for us and for our family is a fundamental fact, I would add useful and necessary, as everything that is not will be avoided, reducing our efforts and protecting us from future dissatisfaction.

What will be necessary and useful, to share, we will reach to enjoy it, using the necessary time without thinking about anything else.

Automatic translation. We apologize for any inaccuracies. Original article in Italian.