The Hedonist

 “I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor, and this was the reward for all my toil. Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.”

‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭2:10-11‬ ‭NIV‬‬

https://bible.com/bible/111/ecc.2.10-11.NIV

Is pleasure in life all that is to be pursued?  The pursuit of happiness as the creed to living is gravely misunderstood; a fool's errand!  Happiness is equated to temporal satiation of appetites.  One is never completely filled with this voracious aspiration. It is meaningless, lacking lasting merits, and completely wasteful.

Time on earth is finite and at the end of this journey when I have feasted my eyes on the world, what does it give me back?  My eyes cannot contain all its beauty without hungering for more.  I am famished constantly; feasting greedily but never really filled.  I am like a vessel with a hole deep in my soul craving, lusting for things that vanish in time.