Look around.

You see these humans walking around in the park?

See the lady in that pink jacket playing with her little kid near the swings?

See that old couple sitting and staring somewhere far on that bench?

See that young couple that just walked by, entangled in each other's arms?

That little teen in blue jacket on that bench with books and macbook?

This girl in late 20s or early 30s who just cycled by?

You see. Some of them are alone. Some with another human. Their age, older or younger.

Issue is, each one of them is gazing into the wilderness of what the other has or doesn't have.

Each wants another human, another job, another activity or something "another" that they don't seem to have at this moment in time.

Issue is, sitting here and interrupting the intensity of their gaze to make them realize is difficult.

For no matter how hard you try, it's only after running a whole track of losing and gaining people, jobs, money and other things that a human comes to a realisation.

A realisation that for you to eliminate loneliness and vacuum, you don't need to focus on what you don't have. Human, out of the shere pain of internal vacuum, often succumbs to positioning the lack, the pain, as a misery; consequently often striking a deal, getting what it wants and acquiring temporary fulfillment.

Ask that old couple sitting on that bench. Have they gotten absolutely what they wanted? They'd say, eventually yes.

Now ask them, did it come to them through how they positioned their vacuums, needs and miseries to the world or did it all come to them in its all due time?

Eventually you get everything you want. In due time. You get exactly what you need at exactly the moment you need it. Not a second more. Not a second less. Not a thing more. Not a thing less.

Trying to acquire something is different from obsessively wanting something. The first stems out of an understanding that having something doesn't make you complete. The latter stems out of a shere compulsive delusion that the acquired thing will make you complete.

We love portraying ourselves as passive victims of this world, of this society. Often a times, in our effort to bargain a better deal with the world. And if not with the world, then with ourselves. For the self pity of the words of the situation we are in soothes us and resonates the reassurance of our role as a victim.

The world is unjust. Indeed so. But doubting His justice to his people or His spread of appearant/nonappearant suffering/blessings is like confining Him in our little books of accounts.

In doing so, are we forgetting the Creator who created the very concept of Justice? In running after the world are we not trying to fill the vacuum meant for Him by everything apart from Him.