What Do You Want?

For some this is an easy question.

For most it is anything but.

Some will say money, and lots of it.

Unless you are destitute and in need of clothing and shelter, are you certain that money is what you truly want?

What if you were given ten million dollars, would you be happy?

What if after you were given the money you were told that it was counterfeit and, therefore, not worth a cent?

If this disappoints you, then is it really true that it was the money you wanted?

Was it not the things that money bought that you really wanted?

Now we have reached a deeper truth.

We began at money but then realized it was the things that money bought.

Are you certain that it is the things that money buys that you want?

We can continue to expose the lie by going to deeper and deeper levels of truth.

So what is rock bottom?

What is your ultimate desire?

What is that one thing for which all of these other things are all surrogates?

Every human being seeks happiness.

Every human being seeks love.

Every human being seeks acceptance.

Every human being seeks engagement.

And every single thing we do in our lives is nothing more than a continuous search for one of these feelings, or a derivative, thereof.

The activities, careers, and habits we pursue to attain them are just details.

An athlete does not want to win, he craves it.

Why?

Is it really the win, or the feeling associated with the win? And when that feeling fades, what is left for him to do but seek another win, another dose of feeling.

We all behave as thirsty voyagers seeking happiness, love, acceptance, and engagement, one drop at a time.

But the ultimate human being,

the ultimate athlete,

the ultimate voyager,

at some point in his life realizes the futility of his search.

And at that moment he leaves behind the drops...

and begins his voyage for the ocean that bore them.