Things you begin to miss
Life always seems to take a turn for the worst when you run short on something you need. You suffocate when you run out of air, dehydrate when you run out of water and starve when you run out of food. It’s strange though, how miserable life can be when the only needs we fulfill are necessities. We want something more for ourselves and spend our whole lives chasing it.
Where does one find fulfillment, when nothing by nature is fulfilling…that is to say in and of itself? Fulfillment requires something more than the act we’re performing, relative to the act and not the individual. Where it comes from is inside. When the act is something that we do, in as near an altruistic fashion as possible, for others, we find fulfillment. Not in what we do, but in who we’re doing it for.
Life becomes very sad if we never learn to live beyond our own needs to surivive. Air, food, water and warmth can be pretty boring if that’s all we have.
June 6th, 2007 at 7:32 am
True.. very true. Survival is the first thing and then it’s nice to have time for the other. Survival is the first thing, though. Life does become sad, though if that’s all we can do is survive.