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The Never-Ending Chase For Completion
For all the self-help and philosophy we consume and apply, there is this “something” always lurking in the background. Something that makes us quite uneasy.
A simple question, one that is sure to break us if we dare to dig deeper:
What if it doesn’t fulfil me?
The next promotion, the next vacation, retirement, a new girlfriend… whatever.
What if there is not something? Something in the future we can achieve to give us the happiness we’ve been desperately looking for?
What if we’re doomed to live in a never-ending cycle of:
Desiring something -> Working towards said thing -> Achieving it -> Realizing that it won’t make us happy -> Moving on to the next thing
Should we reject the idea of this loop to start with, assuming that there is something in the future to make us happy, or instead, strive to let go of the need for something in the future, knowing that it may be impossible to start with?
If you can’t already tell, this is something I struggle with quite a lot so, now, I will make a case for both options and what the pros/cons appear to be:
