Have you ever chased after something, pining madness, capture it and then only to find it didn't fulfill the needs you had. Why? Why doesn't chasing after things and then posseses them fill us?
The insatiable beast of desire can never be filled to how we'd like it to be--FACT. Usually because our fantasies and day dreams of how we "think" it will be when we achieve our goals are much more grand in our imaginations than they ever truly turn out to be in reality.
Let's look at a son who deeply desires for his father to recognize him for the man he is. Yes, he should be loved and admired and cared for by the father but sometimes (and often-times-) that doesn't happen. Let's say that after 20 years the father does come to recognize his son. The father embraces his son, speaks the right words, but the son still feels empty. Why? Because maybe he found out that the respect he thought he'd finally gain wasn't quite what he pictured. He finds out the truth about his father: struggling, suffering and not integral.
The son then finds out that his father needed his approval more than he needed his father's approval. The wind chasing/catching cycle stops. REALIZATION is what stopped it.
BUT, let's not get so down and hopeless thinking that there's no remedy because this IS where the true beauty lays: when the son finally realizes this, the son can now help the father. AND guess what? Because the son finally let go of his ideas/ideals...he found the truth and bridged a huge chasm by being the one to help his father. The wind chasing stops and the two men can be who they were truly destined to be.
I know this story oh too well...it's quite close to my heart...I attest to this because I've seen the happy & just ending...
