Why do we always desire what we don't have?!! We are always looking for or running after something, why? I have been asking myself this a lot lately…. Its really so obvious (although not much people see it), those with less wealth want more money, and those with money desire more power, those in the east are fascinated by the west and vice versa, those with fair skin would like to get tanned and those with darker skin dream of having a fair skin!! Why do so many people leave their homes or countries, regardless of how developed or rich is that country? Or why do so many people like to collect rare things??
It just seems to me that we are all looking and searching for "something", yet, when we reach this or that "thing"… it seems its not enough, or may be we find its not really what we needed, then we start dreaming of something else… and it keeps going again and again and again…. Till…. We die or perhaps get depressed…. And even though, the cure for that depression would be finding "something" to run after, some motivation, something to live for…..aye… is it really that?! That we always need something to live for? That, lets say, without these mirages we run after, there is no reason for us to live?! There is no meaning for our presence?! What a pathetic life, of course if that was true!
Or is it some sort of natural process? Like some driving force in this life, something to keep life going. Like these natural forces that keep everything moving; wind, earth layers, waves, ocean tides…etc. could this also be some kind of natural force that force us to interact, so that life on earth keeps changing… and maybe heading to a certain point or fate… could be!
Or maybe it is just happiness that we are searching for. Maybe this lost happiness is the reason why we always want things, specially those we don't have or those that are hard to get, thinking that this or that is going to give us the happiness we are looking for. But when we reach there and find it didn’t really matter much, and we are still unhappy, then we start looking for a different thing. But are we really unhappy?? Well, I guess we have our happy moments, but "Happiness" is really something different. And it is really an ironic thing, think about it like this, if you are happy, really happy with what you are and what you have, why do you want to change it? Why do you want more, why do you have wishes and dreams? If life was perfect, who would dare to dream?!! And, dream of what?!!
Or may be all of that is true, like everything else in the universe, a perfect web of reasons that fit together in an amazing harmony. Unlike our perfection which is usually based on a single reason or concept….a defective perfection!! Meaning, when some aspect of something or an idea is perfect, the others are surely defective. Even when it comes to science, our perspective is usually deficient and short sighted, specially in those branches that try to explain the universe, like those theories of modern physics, the relativity, the string theory and the realm of quantum physics…. Each of these sciences is concerned with a certain aspect of the universe, and most of them can explain it perfectly, but when we put them all together, they just don't fit, they can even contradict. On the other hand, the universal or divine perfection is just "universal"… everything fits together, everything can have more than one reason, or even all the reasons, everything can be explained in more than a way.
But, where and what is happiness? Are we ever going to find it?!
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