The Great Illusion: When We Chase What We Don’t Need?

Why do I keep seeing pale, tired faces these days? People walking, thinking. Sitting, thinking. Maybe even thinking in their sleep. Everyone’s face shows confusion and worry and no one is truly present their minds are either stuck in the past or racing toward the future. So many needs, so many regrets and so many things people want but know deep down they may never reach and many things done in the past that they now regret.

When I see people like this, I feel sorry for them. It’s as if everyone is living as though they’re going to be here for hundreds of years. Working nonstop and storing resources or collecting money as if they’ll live forever not just the few decades they actually have. Everyone has endless needs and desires, and they keep chasing more every single day. But then what?

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Modern life has created fake needs and a world of illusions shaped by glowing screens. Expensive brands, trending lifestyles, luxury trips, fancy cars. You’ll see a man in a sharp suit on TV smiling and advertising a pricey watch or an elite car and living a life that looks perfect. You start wanting that life. But his job is to smile to sell you something. That joy you see is staged, designed to create a need you didn’t even have before.

A lot of people don’t realize this. They don’t even know what they actually want. They just look around at others or stare into their screens, thinking: “If I don’t achieve that, I’m not happy.” But ask yourself: do I really need that watch? That car? Still, these things become the measure of someone’s worth as a symbol of how “successful” someone is, how close they are to the goal society defined for them.

And then there’s the other side of the world as a simple farmer in a poor country, smiling with his children because he managed to bring home some bread for the day. Meanwhile, you’re upset because your car is last year’s model. You want the newest phone. You want, and want, and want. All that wanting drains your energy, consumes your time and in the end you may find yourself exhausted, having never reached the happiness you were chasing.

I’m not saying that life is only found in simplicity or that you have to live with the bare minimum. What I’m saying is: stop and ask yourself what you truly need. Chase what you genuinely want not what others tell you to want, or what society has drawn on your path like a blueprint. Be yourself not someone else’s version of success. Understand your own goals, not someone else’s checklist and most importantly look inside yourself for happiness not around you.

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