An all time favorite pastime of quite a few of my friends is to always glance at what other people around us have ordered whenever we go to any restaurant.  It is not only before we order or during the time we are waiting for our own order to arrive.  They even do it while our order is right there on our table.

This is some light-hearted fun which they involve themselves in. And somehow, it is the story of all our lives. The desire, the cravings of what we don’t have is relentless. It overpowers us to such extremities. It clouds our minds and it constantly engulfs our thoughts.

Like for example, this movie buff I know who is always downloading some movie or the other. He never gets tired of it.  The funny part is that I seldom see him spending his time watching one. He is downloading one after the other and the next and then the next. It is the desire to own every good movie he has probably heard of in his lifetime. But the desire to watch one is sadly missing. The enjoyment of watching a movie has taken a backseat.

Something far more interesting to note is the desire to own rather than the desire to enjoy what you own. The student is always chasing and worrying after a job. The professional is worried after the promotion. The top boss is worried about the more profits and expansion of the business. One may comment that it is not worry but the desire to surge ahead than the rest.  But what happens when you finally do surge ahead from the rest? What do you do when you do not have anything else to achieve? 

Quite fortunately, there is no answer to that question. No matter how much this intelligent life form has achieved in its short period of existence, the list of achievements to be achieved are endless. That is why, the two people in this country, who if put together can topple the richest man in the world with their assets, still continue to fight against each other for petty little things.

And sadly, it is the same with relationships. You run after this boy/girl who seems to endearing and charming to you. He/she is enigmatic and mysterious and is all that what you always crave for. You chase him/her throughout. And when you finally have what you always wanted something goes amiss. It becomes tedious to carry on the relationship. You have read him/her thoroughly inside out, and now it doesn’t seem to be worth fighting for. Worth living for.

No one can leave this chase. It is what our life is made of. Someone told me, that if this chase ends, our life ends too. It is one of those true things about life. Just like death is life’s biggest truth, this chase fits as a sub-clause, I suppose.  It is what drives life, and it is what slows it down, eventually.