A Monstrous Mirage

You are driving along on a bright sunny day and what looks like water appears in the road ahead of you. As you move closer, it disappears, only to reappear in the next dip in the road. But is it water? Of course not. It is a reflection of the midday sky. It is a mirage.

If you chase it looking to satisfy your thirst, it will only lead you to trouble. You will end up lost and spent, confused and disoriented, unable to figure out where life went wrong. It went wrong the minute you started chasing illusions and hallucinations instead of what is real and certain.

Many of the things we chase in life are nothing but mirages. That perfect boyfriend; that woman to satisfy our fantasies; that storybook marriage; an ideal career; the magazine-cover home. These will never do the trick; they can’t satisfy. So it is…