10 Dynamic Moments: “Gratification Saturation”

Dynamic Moments are points in time when you make discoveries or when you come to conclusions or when you feel the beginnings of something greater than yourself.

During the month of December, I will be writing about 10 such moments.

Here is the tenth:

Gratification Saturation –

When people first get something they’ve always wanted, perhaps something they’ve wanted for quite some time, they will often inundate themselves with it, indulging in whatever it is to excess and beyond. This is similar to the spending sprees people often go on after winning big time in the lottery.

When dynamic moments are felt, gratification follows – inherently, if not even more so than that. And the saturation part is natural as well. Why wouldn’t we want to have as much of a good thing as we can handle? The real trick is finding the one thing in life we have to have as opposed to need … balance, balance of all things good and all things great and all things immeasurable of quality.

Without balance, it’s hard to know what too much is. Without saturation, it’s hard to know what too little is.

But the need to have gratification is part of the process and also a right. Journeys that end well often end that way. And to see someone indulging in rewards is never a bad thing. For a Daddy, seeing his little swoon in anything to the point of being saturated is reward in itself.

Gratification, thankfully, has limitations. But those limitations are, ironically, limitless. Doing the same thing all the time eliminates the specialness it could hold. A thought to ponder would be: You can’t miss something, if it never goes away. At the same time, what if you don’t want something to go away?

From these ponderings comes the return to that concept of balance – of where something you crave becomes something you wanna keep craving. And for once, limitations give you the ability to balance that out. But what awaits at that point is greater than you could’ve imagined otherwise.

When you find the saturation, then find balance and that’s when it will really good. There will still be plenty of moments of gratification saturation. But there will also be a leveling that will make everything sustainable, so that you can enjoy gratification like that now, a year from now, ten years from now and for the rest of your life – without ever allowing it to become too much to live with.