Our Unknown

As humans, we are tempted by risk. The adrenaline in our blood, the idea of a reward, and our natural curiosity. We don’t want to stay where we are or be satisfied with everything we have. We want more.

We want to discover what we don’t know, the part of us that we are missing. We want to find someone, or something like us. We want a grand adventure, we don’t just want to live like everyone else. We want to dance on clouds and find a golden palace filled with enchantments or explore the Amazon and find the love of our life on a never-ending trip.

People want to find out that there is something beyond what they already know. Something more than the taxes needing to be filed, the late transit every morning, and the same pop songs playing on repeat from the radio. Someone more than the sticky-sweet receptionist, the spam callers who always seem to have your number on their lists, and your work partner who can’t type for her life. People want more than this.

More like driving into sunsets, falling down waterfalls, running in the woods blindly, loving without even a second thought regarding the consequences and friends that last a lifetime. We want more, no matter what we have. And sometimes, less is more. We don’t want a check for a thousand dollars, although that would be nice, we want a life that can’t be measured in money. We don’t want a huge mansion and dozens of vacation a year, we want one adventure that shows us why we are in this world and what we are meant to do. Perhaps we don’t want less, we just want more meaning in our life. Meaning. The reason we are here, why we meet who we meet, what we are meant to do.

The human spirit has never, and will probably never be satisfied. It’s always yearning, reaching for more. But wouldn’t life be so boring if we always had what we wanted?