Gratitude project: Day 10: You Can't Always Get What You Want
July 16th 2008 03:13
As I get older I recognize that life is not what I thought it was, and I am not who I thought I was. In a way, our whole culture may be passing through that now, in the sense that our modern world has been increasingly motivated to give people what they want physically, socially, materially. I think that I am waking up to the fact that physical and social satisfaction does not really bring happiness, well-being, or answers to the great questions of life. It never will and it never can. So another desire appears, which is the desire for meaning. This is eros. We need meaning, not only physical pleasure, or security or anything of that kind.
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