What is it that we humans most want in our lives?
It's easy enough to sit down and make a list that includes things like a new car, or a larger place to live, or is the ability to take vacations, or fancy sneakers… but those are all wants we have that exist primarily at a surface level.
But they don't actually represent what we really and truly want, in the sense of wanting something that fills the possible "holes" we feel that we might have inside.
Some might argue that what we most want is to have a family and to be loved... and those are certainly noble and worthy desires… goodness knows, I've wanted to have those for myself as well!
But what is it that we *truly& want, beyond that?
Just based on observation and experience, and talking to lots and lots of people over my five decades of walking around on this planet, it seems to me that what most people want the most is to feel seen and heard.
I say that, because all those things I listed above — cars, houses, family and what have you — tend to vary considerably from one person to the next. However, the idea of feeling authentically seen and heard for who we genuinely are — not just for some mask or facade we might put on for "public consumption" — seems to be a very consistent desire across all genders, demographics, ages, and philosophical leanings.
Part of how I arrived here also stems from the fact that when most people claim that they feel very alone you can often scratch beneath the surface and ascertain that the real problem isn't so much a physical aloneness as it is an aloneness that arises out of not feeling seen or heard; feeling misunderstood and overlooked.
I suppose one of the things we have to keep in mind when exploring this is that a large number of people don't actually engage in sufficient introspection and self-inquiry to arrive at the point where they realize that whatever it is that seems to be "missing" in their life is actually this particular element.
Most people only swim around in the shallows of their own lives and never really scrape far enough below the surface to realize and recognize that their desire for vacations or jewelry or fancy cars or a better job or a bigger house or a better neighborhood are really just surface level things they're trying to put in a deep hole that's begging to be being filled with something quite different from what they think is needed; something ethereal, or spiritual and possibly fleeting.
Hence there is such a huge self development and therapy industry because so many end up feeling like they're failing because they tried to fill the missing spaces inside, knowing only that there is a space there but not what's actually causing that space to come into being.
And so, we must pause and reflect deeply, and ask ourselves what it really is that is missing.
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