I recently read a quote by author Matthew Kelly in which he said, “The Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa talk about ‘the Two Hungers.’ There is the Great Hunger and the Little Hunger. The Little Hunger yearns for food while the Great Hunger, the greatest hunger of all, is the hunger for meaning.”
He goes on to talk about happiness vs. unhappiness. While most of us want happiness, and there is nothing wrong with that, he goes on to make a profound statement, when he says, “But of far more comfort to the soul is something greater than happiness or unhappiness, and that is meaning.:” “Once what you are doing has meaning for you, it is irrelevant whether you’re happy or unhappy. You are content.”
I see clients on a daily basis who are searching for things to fulfill them – a new car, a bigger house, the next new relationship, the latest technology, and the list goes on and on. It is so puzzling why people look everywhere for fun and “happiness,” but they resist going to the Author of Life, where they can find meaning, significance, and contentment.
I will admit that a day at Disneyland can be “fun” and I may be “happy” eating a bowl of Blue Bell ice cream. But I would easily trade either of those for feelings, at the end of the day, of satisfaction and contentment. I hope you are finding meaning in your life at the source.