Each and every one of us is looking for something.  This fact is evidenced by the endless chains of stores that line our main streets, side streets, and even back alley ways. Saturdays usher in the yard sales and flea markets, we are prowling and  on the hunt for the goods. Even in our leisure time we find ourselves online, shopping, looking, pricing, and perhaps even scope-ing like a sniper. We have a bead on it, we are on the hunt: for that "possession" we'd like to have, for that place we'd like to be, for that thing we'd like to do, and in some cases for that person we'd like see.  Simultaneously time is a consideration while gas is a premium there is: work, school, children, basic subsistence needs like food and water.  There is also a internal directive for progress and growth which requires alone time for study, for exercise,  for practice, for prayer, for  reflection and introspection about the way we are going and its logistic relativity to our desired end point.

When the wives are entering into the home the husbands are on  the way out.  Some of our lives mirror two ships passing into the night.  'Where are you going honey," we ask?  "Oh i forgot to tell you dear, tonight is the night  that i have that thing." There need not be any sinister backdrop as humans we are always looking...looking to boost our economic bottom-line, looking to socially establish ourselves, looking in many respects because of the endless glittering show has taught us that we should be actively looking.  Many a wife has been absent from home because she was looking for bargains on food for the family or killer shoes that her best friends will envy.  Some people are looking for class status, meanwhile others are looking for validation and confirmation of their own self worth, as in the case of many confused and lost children.  The mother or father was looking for a feeling, perhaps it was the feeling of being a "real man" a provider, so he worked 70 hours a week.  The end result was that the child went looking for someone to teach them the ways of the world, in this scenario the companion to the child was merely looking to feel good all the time by staying high or drunk.  

Yes, we are all looking for something and for good cause, in the current economic system you cannot live without acquisition. One also cannot live with a weak, burdened, or broken spirit.  Happiness is to be sought after as much as validation and confirmation of ones worth is to be obtained. However, what is ironic is that: when we find all the things we need, after we have traveled at home and abroad, after we have labored night and day, after we have endeavored, impoverished, and worn ourselves out in the endless pursuit of looking, being, doing and acquiring what we were looking for. We will find out that all that we desired for love, for health, and for happiness was all along at the end of our nose as the sweet old lady discovered also who lost her glasses. She spent the better part of a day tearing her home up only to discover they were ever so near, you don't have to.  Love your spouse, adore your children, honor your parents , and appreciate your neighbors and friends.  GOD BLESS