Everybody's Looking for Something !

Anyone born in the 60's or early seventies would have heard this number by Eurythmics called "Sweet Dreams" in their teens. Listening to the song recently really got me thinking - 

Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
Travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something.

Isn't this absolutely true ? The only thing that they did not say in the song is that most people don't find "it" - what they are looking for. I just realised that it gets much worse - most people don't know what they are looking for. 

If you ask, people are going to give you very generic answers - Money, Fame, Love, Happiness, Peace (mostly in that order). But seriously, what are you looking for ? Do you know what it is? Do you hope to find it ? 

The problem in knowing what you are looking for is that it leads to the more fundamental question of , why are we here ?

This is why, what we are looking for ranges from God and  saving the Earth to procreation and ensuring a better future for the next generation. The minority find what they are looking for and are truly happy. These people know this because some wiring in their brain  falls into place giving them a clear picture of what they want and why they are here.

A good many settle on something that they presume they were looking for either because of they've got tired searching or like the proverbial ostrich its better not to worry too much of what's happening around you.

There's a third set of people who simply do not give up looking for something and then looking for something to look for. They end up either creating something truly exceptional or killing themselves (not necessarily physically).