Why Do I?

We are all born into this world with a natural desire for enjoyment, fun and the good life, and in this we are very hedonistic. It is this natural part of each of us that the Bible refers to as "the natural man".

If it feels good do it!

Yet so much of what makes us feel good is also self destructive. All 'social drugs' give us that warm and fuzzy feeling, but they bring with them the ugly side of addiction, disease, and abusive destructive behaviour. Yet we humans continue to seek fullfilment through these and the pursuit of money and material possessions.

Forever chasing the dream of self-satisfaction but never satisfying our hedonistic desires. We never get what we are chasing in the bottom of a bottle, or in a joint or pill. And the money and material possessions just cannot satisfy the desire for long enough either. For most of us there is a fleeting moment of satisfaction in the warm fuzzies that chasing the dream in the natural brings, but that is all it is. A fleeting moment of satisfaction that receeds as fast as we found it.

But, if the appeasing of our desires through the natural brings us the warm and fuzzy often enough, then that desire grows in strength. And having gained the desire, the desire in turn increases. So we jump back onto the treadmill and run even harder to appease that desire. Which when appeased once again increases.

Because We Are Human

It sounds so simplistic and in some ways it is. We all are born into this world wanting to satisfy our natural desires and find happiness and fullfilment, but we go looking in the wrong places.Think about it, and be honest with yourself.

• more money
• a better car
• a better job
• a better house

Yet the contentment doesn't last. A few weeks or months go by and we are no longer contented. The happiness and sense of fullfilment are fading fast or gone and we get to feeling a little sad, despondent and unfullfilled.

So off we go again.

• to a party to the bar for a drink out back for a joint to the mall on a shopping spree

But once again the warm and fuzzy doesn't last. In a few hours or days we are back in the familiar cold and grizzly. And off we go again in a futile attempt to find the happiness and contentment that begins to dissolve into grey clouds the moment we attain it.