Like many of my colleagues, I often have to deal with a person who is dissatisfied with life. Something goes against your wishes and ideas, and the unfortunate person falls into a certain state in which he experiences his disagreement with what is happening, ranging from mild sadness to “I’ll tear everyone apart, you bastards!” Perhaps, to some, dissatisfaction seems to be a completely normal response to some of life’s troubles - but let’s first look at what is really behind this “norm of dissatisfaction”. The root of the word “discontent” is the word “will”. Moreover, in the Russian language the word “will” has two meanings: will as freedom - and will as the power component of a person, as his ability to control himself. Oddly enough, in the concept of “dissatisfaction” both meanings exist and lead, in fact, to a single result. The term “Dissatisfaction” means the state of a person who has not reached the basic state of a developed and intelligent being, filled with vital force - to the state of will: he is not content. Moreover, here the word “will” means both freedom - where “I am not-willed” means “I am deprived of freedom of choice” - and the ability to control - where “I am not-willed” also means “I have no will, I am deprived of the technical ability to do as I want” - that is, again, deprived of freedom of choice. Dissatisfaction as a violation of desires. We are unhappy when something goes against our will, our desire. We have an idea of ​​what the world should be like. But reality does not correspond to our ideas. It’s as if we are being diverted from our own course, and someone else’s will begins to direct us in a direction that we did not choose, to which we did not give our consent. Here our will is a kind of hidden compass that pointed in the direction we needed - and suddenly this course is disrupted by someone else's force. A person wanted others to act in his interests, within the framework of his will - and they, such scoundrels, do not obey this. He immediately falls into a state of dissatisfaction with the situation - where his will is ignored, the world does not act the way he wants, and deprives him of his freedom. But this is on the surface - what is happening inside? The first thing that arises in a dissatisfied person is an emotional reaction of disagreement. But at its core, emotion is an uncontrollable outburst of energy. This means that when a person, energetically embedded in the system of ideas familiar to him and mastered by him, finds himself in a situation where the energy of his intention encounters an unexpected obstacle, modeled by someone else’s force - it, his energy, instantly reaches a peak value, leaves the usual channel, and begins to flow uncontrollably. Essentially, this is a kind of energy explosion - which can range from micro to macro, and is directed both inward, dissatisfied, where it destroys the person himself - and outward, where it destroys the surrounding people and space. For the human brain, getting into a situation of dissatisfaction means that the usual and comfortable picture of the world, the picture of established ideas, is disrupted. And this is something in which he loses stability for some time (from fractions of seconds - to hours, days, and years), loses the opportunity to live and act as he is used to - in that state of peace that gave him stability. Signs of dissatisfaction - or "Who is subject to discontent." As already said, the essence of dissatisfaction is “I am deprived of freedom of choice.” But let's take a sober look: what kind of freedom of choice does a person have who lives in a world of endless secrets, where the first secret for him is himself? If you answer this question honestly, then there is no so-called. We have no real freedom - we only have the opportunity to act within certain frameworks and restrictions. And the first one who falls into a defeatist state of discontent is the one who, due to his selfish impudence and conceit, believes that for him these frameworks are not a decree. And that he can strain the world and adjust it to his ideas. As a result, the world works like an ordinary spring, and with an increased reverse impulse returns to the dissatisfied.