Peace of Mind

As I had noted previously, I had an in depth argument with my father about the concept of 'peace of mind'. This argument was extremely circular, and while I might discuss it at some point, I would have considered it quite pointless if it had not gotten me to consider the topicof peace of mind more closely. 

In order to have peace of mind, a person must either be content with their current state. This would include the people in their life, their job, their home, and all other aspects that would affect a person's life. It is possible to have partial peace of mind, I would say, if you are content with certain aspects of your current state, but peace of mind may just be the state of overall contentment. 

I would imagine that complete peace of mind would be extremely difficult to attain, and because of that, it is hard to set a standard of what this absolute actually is. I even question that it is even able to be help up to a universal standard, as I'm sure that everyone requires different types of satisfaction in certain areas to achieve peace of mind.

Can you fool yourself into thinking that you have peace of mind when you actually do not? By telling yourself that everything is fine when it really isn't, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to do so. I guess that means that peace of mind also requires an individual to be true to their own feelings. That makes sense though, because someone who has peace of mind is probably also at peace with them self. 

I thought about adding some personal ideas and examples into this, but i decided against it. Maybe at some point in the future I'll do that in other posts.