美国《幸福》杂志曾在征答栏中刊登过这么一个题目假如让你重新选择，你做什么一位军界要人的回答是去乡间开一个杂货铺;一位劳动部长是想做一家饮料公司的经理…其间也有一般百姓的回答。想做总统的，想做外交官的，想做面包师的，应有尽有。但是，很少有人想做现在的自己。

人有时非常矛盾。本来活得好好的，各方面的环境都不错，然而当事者却常常心存厌倦。对人类这种因生命的平淡和缺少激情而苦恼的心态，有时是不能用不知足来解释的。

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The US Fortune magazine once posed to its readers such a question in a questionnaire. If you were to choose again, what would you like to be I'd like to run a grocery store in the countryside, a high-ranking official in the military responded. The Minister of Labor preferred to become the manager of a beverage company…People in other trades answered the same question in various ways. Some wished to run for President, others wanted to be diplomats, and still others cherished the idea of working in a bakery. Whatever they set their minds on, none was willing to remain what they are should a new choice arise.

People are forever in a dilemma. They live a fairly good life and their circumstances as good as can be, but from time to time they grow tired of all this. One can hardly attribute this mentality, arising from life's monotony and lack of passion, to insatiability on the part of humans.