[Radical]

If you look in to how our brain behaves, you will notice that our brain likes to hold on to a goal. Most of us are holding on to something in our life. Most of us have some goal. Take an example, you want to be rich. You want to be famous. Our goal provides our brain an anchor. If you are on a religious path you may have a goal of reaching enlightenment. Goal is something that we look forward to. We seek goals in our life. Goal is also the same thing as desire. It is something that we seek.

When one goal is reached then we form another goal. There is no end to the cycle of goal formation. Think about when you were in high school. You wanted to graduate. After you graduated you wanted to go to college. Then you wanted to get a job. After getting a job you wanted to marry. After marrying you want to have children. Once you settle down you get bored. Then you form new goals. There is no end to the cycle of forming goals.

At some point in our life we realize that whatever we were trying to reach is not valuable or reachable. You then join some spiritual organization. You end up with spiritual goals. You want to reach nirvana or enlightenment. You want to reach some higher level of consciousness.

If you notice that all these are goals. Why do we want to reach these goals even if we know that there is no end to the cycle of these goals? Once you reach one goal then a second goal pops up. Our life is an endless cycle of trying to reach these goals. Ultimately at some point we realize that we cannot achieve these goals. We give up and become passive. We get depressed.

The question is why our brain craves for goals? What will happen if we do not strive and reach goals? We do not know what to do with our lives. We feel we will be worthless. We feel that we have not made anything of our valuable life. We don’t see any point in living if we do not achieve goals. We feel that we have wasted our lives. We feel lost if our brain does not have a goal.

There is no end to the goals that we are seeking. Take an example; you may have felt that once you have job, spouse, children, house etc you will not need anything more. If you have all those things, you will realize that the inner emptiness is still there. The inner void feeling is still there. It seems that if you achieve something to get satisfaction, once you achieve that goal, the satisfaction jumps one step away. Once you reach the goal the satisfaction vanishes and jumps to some other goal. Our life is a struggle. It is battle to achieve all these eluding goals. The bottomless pit of satisfaction never gets filled up. It always remains empty.