Would you say discontentment brings us more good than harm?

Question

it definitely makes us strive for improvement, but isnt this the very thing that keeps a person from being happy?

Answer 1

discontentment brings plenty of harm. suicide, murder, not saying that discontentment is bad, it does push us to do things we usually wouldn't do be it good or evil....

Answer 2

Yes, it brings most of us more good than harm. It is what made us get off our butts and out of the caves and to build the ever improving civilization we have.

Sure, it makes some people unhappy but you can't please everyone all the time.

Answer 3

No.

Answer 4

As weight is put to a question to see how it holds up, trials and tribulations test us to see how we hold up.

To say one is "happy" wherever he or she is at, means that there is no room for further growth.

To be happy one only needs "nowness."

We think of the past. We think of the future happiness. The future is soon here and we still think of future happiness - so we will never be happy.

Enjoy the moment. Right now.

All the best.

Answer 5

No  Discontentment leads you to be less cautious and  subject to greater harm

Answer 6

I wouldn't say that it brings more good than harm...

Sometimes, it does nothing but encourage confusion about what way to approach whatever problems might be causing discontentment.

Answer 7

I think it can bring good if it motivates us to change our lives, if it inspires us.

I think when we start to dwell on whatever is making us unhappy (without the self awareness need to recognize and make changes) it becomes negative.  

Answer 8

Discontentment causes you to ponder the classic question

"To be or not to be?" - Hamlet

that was also echoed as

"Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'" - The Shawshank Redemption

Answer 9

no, in my opinion discontentment is usually a symptom of a greater problem, (envy, apathy, self-loathing, etc). Happiness is available to anyone who can  sit down and stop thinking silly thoughts.

Answer 10

"Discontent[ment] is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."

It does keep you from some happiness, yes.  But aren't there different kinds of happiness?  If we were all lying in tubs somewhere with honey flowing into our mouths, I'm sure we'd be happy.  But discontentment is what forces us to seek out more intellectual forms of happiness--to get out of the tub, so to speak--and to share it with others.