What is the best thing to happen to a human being? Is it success? Money? Power? Love? Nirvana? A passion to die for?
People crave to become "successful". Yet more often than not the success leaves them with a more hollow, meaningless existence. “Now what?”, the mind asks. Or, "What if I loose it", it fears. The chase is generally more fun than the destination.
People crave for money. This is expected because 90% of the world's population is economically deprived. Money; like food, water and air; is a very important part of life. Yet one has to remember that it is just a tool. Nothing more, nothing less. Forget this and you will get lost on the road of greed.
Power is the most intoxicating of the lot. Once you have had it, you want it again and again. Yet for the one who is not able to control it, it can be totally destructive: for people around them and themselves. The one who can use it can really do a lot of things.
Love is another mirage people chase. Yet most forget that this chase can be successful only by knowing someone really close: themselves. If one has not known the soul, chances that they will be able to recognize their soulmate (even if they declared it) are one in a million.
Nirvana or God is the most complex of mirages as here most try to disguise their craving for power, money or love as craving for God. Knowingly or unknowingly. That state of supreme fufilment can only come to a person who is totally satisfied. For whom other cravings have lost sheen not by denial but by their natural course.
And sometimes it just seems worthwhile if you have a cause, real or invented, to live for. Again the same old cravings do enter this arena and make it more colorful. You may be a race-driver, an athlete, a musician, a singer, a social activist, a statesman, a lawyer, a designer, a writer, a poet, a developer... Anybody for whom what he does is what life is all about. But is it?
What else do you think we chase? The root of our restless human minds... What is your mirage?
