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Are You Missing Out on Something?
Are You Missing Out on Something?
If you're like most people, you have a vague feeling there must be more to life
than meets the eye. Discover how you can find that missing ingredient in your life.
by John Ross Schroeder
We all know the feeling of being left out--not
invited to a party, ignored by the country-club set or shunned by the in crowd. Maybe
we haven't being able to afford a vacation this year, or perhaps we've never achieved
that big career break.
Middle-aged Americans and Canadians may remember George Morgan's popular country-and-western
hit, "Oh, How Close We Were, Almost." We can identify with being
close, but still not quite there--always managing to come up just a little short.
Yet we're usually resilient. We get over the slights and learn to live with our longings.
We live to endure another day.
An unsatisfied lot
But, no matter how comfortably we seem situated, we often want to be somewhere
else doing something different. An actor was so unsatisfied with his life that it
was said he didn't want to be anywhere. Others long to be somewhere over the rainbow,
as the Judy Garland sang in The Wizard of Oz. Another time. Another job. Another
place. Maybe even another marriage partner. The grass is always greener just over
the horizon. We want we know not what.
The wisest of the ancients, King Solomon, observed: "The eye is not satisfied
with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing" (Ecclesiastes 1:8). Whatever we
do in life, it's never quite enough. An undefinable something anxiously and restlessly
tugs at our natures. Some of us turn to drugs and too much alcohol, only to find
they bring only a temporary respite often followed by a huge letdown. Ours is an
anxious and lonely planet for many people. Reality doesn't meet expectations.
British columnist James Hawes observed: "Most of us spend many of our days,
and the odd sleepless Sunday night, in a mixture of vague dissatisfaction with our
work and pay, niggling worries about our relationships and health, and low-level
fear about our jobs and mortgages" (The Independent , Feb. 15, 1997).
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