Content is being happy with the physical content of my life. It is experiencing enough physical content, without which I am discontent.
Discontent is the experience of the belief that I am without something that I need or with something that I do not want.
Whatever I believe that I do not want becomes a contentious issue. Having to contend with contentious issues, which I fear to be detrimental, makes my perspective and my actions contentious.
I am contentious and a contender against whatever I fear is happening to me in a detrimental way. I see an issue as contentious when I fear that it can go wrong.
I cannot be contentious and content. Overcoming all my contentious issues allows me to be content. I overcome any contentious issue when I change my perspective from a bad situation is happening to me, to a beneficial learning opportunity is unfolding through me.
I cannot strive to be content. Contentious issues always cause strife. When my contention is to be content, I attract contentious issues. Striving and strife are contentious issues.
Contentment unfolds through me, only when I allow it to do so because I am happy with whatever is occurring.