Everything is Meaningless

There was a man
who wanted a thing badly for some time.
Then he got what he wanted.
But when he got it,
it was not what he wanted.
For what he had craved for, in his mind,
was different from what the real world is.

And then there was another man
who wanted a thing just as desperately.
But after some time
he forgot what he wanted,
and life still goes on,
without the thing he thought he cannot live without.
For what he thought, in his mind,
that he must have,
was not true.

And then there was the man
who rejected a good thing that was given to him.
He didnt seeked nor asked for this thing.
He didnt want this free thing
when it was given to him unexpectedly.
There can be many reasons why he didnt want it.
Maybe he have no need for the thing,
the good and bad thus being irrelevant.
Maybe he didnt know he needed that good thing.
But maybe he knew,
but he rather not have a good thing,
but prefers a bad thing instead.
He relished in his freedom
to choose the bad and to reject the good.

Then there was another man
who accepted the bad things that comes his way,
and did not reject them.
Again there can be many reasons.
He may not know it is a bad thing.
Or again he may have known,
but like the bad instead.
Or maybe he just cannot
or do not want to choose -
for reasons such as,
dont want to think,
no time,
takes too much effort, etc -
and takes whatever that comes his way,
good or bad.
So he may be tired of choosing
but rather just let "Nature takes its course".

So what we think we want,
may not be the thing we get,
no matter what we do;
and the things that we get,
no matter we seek them or not,
may not be the things we want.

And whether we know it or not,
we can seek bad desperately,
and reject the good given freely;
or we may think we seek and accept the good,
but what we get may be the bad instead.

So everything is meaningless.

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"Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless."
Solomon, Eccl 1:2