Contentment and simplicity- the key to happiness?

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more improtant than food, and the body more important than clothes? " Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Matthew 6:25-27

No wonder Solomon describes wealth, status and luxury as chasing after the wind. it's never ending and that emptiness can never be filled. How true.

To think about it, if we do not know God, we're simply creatures existing on this earth to eat, live, procreate and die, maybe contributing to the carbon and nitrogen cycles in a way or other. What's the purpose of life? Maybe we are no any different from this ham ham here which runs non-stop on its wheel and stuff nuts up its cheeks.

Perhaps that's how we look like when we get so overwhelmed by work and things of life from God's perspective.