Life is??

I often find myself in a fix when I try to figure it out. Is it working hard to achieve your dreams, or enjoying the small things in life, or fulfilling your desires, or sitting back and see the world go by...I know its a potpourri, but how does one balance it or do we at all try to do so?

At some places, like Bangkok and Dubai I found it to be an absolute pleasure to get sucked into consumeristic behaviour. Yet, places like McLeodganj, Andamans, Pondicherry, and Kanyakumari made me realise how futile all this is. Running all the time to fulfill your desires without stopping once to enjoy what we already have and soaking in the simple pleasures.

Sometimes, the whole office-home chakravyuh entangles us so much that we don't give enough time other things---family, friends, hobbies...

Is it because we don't differentiate between our 'needs' from our 'wants'? Or is it so that we are from our core 'unsatisfied' with what we have and always look for better things and thus, stop enjoying the life itself?

But then someone's need can be another's want...where does this vicious cycle stop? Within us or outside of us? May be we all need to ponder about it, after all don't we all want to end our lives on a happy and a satisfied note?