[stephenkhoo]

The world promises us illusory happiness. We think that if we have status in life, we will be happy but we are not because we lose our privacy. We think with money and power we can be secure but we become even more anxious that these might be taken away. We think that pleasures of the flesh can satisfy us but they do not. Not only success in career but even our relationships are unfulfilling. They never seem to satiate our thirst and hunger for more. That is why we are always restless, allowing ourselves to be driven from one thing to another, one project to another, one entertainment to another and one relationship to another. Life for many of us is either such a burden or meaningless or at least so unfulfilling. When we look back at our lives, we cannot but feel deceived by the world because we still experience so much void and emptiness in our lives.

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