Fame, fortune, financial accomplishment.
The good life.
We all want it! We all exhaust ourselves in pursuit of it! The good life and her accouterments entice us all.
Nickelback’s 2005 hit Rockstar – a song which embraces and encourages the pursuit of fame, fortune and financial accomplishment – may well provide the modern rhythm that has captured a generation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3iO5vMIAUQ).
We all want to be a Rockstar. So it seems!
While it’s human nature to dream of the good life, many define the good life by using terms like conquering or consuming in pursuit of fame, fortune, and financial success.
There is another option. An older, perhaps wiser way one might pursue the good life. This ancient way is birthed from and built on terms such as communion (or connection) and commitment.
The former leads to a relentless pursuit of pleasure: the latter, to a pervasive sense of well-being. The drive to conquer and consume offers satisfaction while delivering depletion. The virtues of communion and commitment require surrender but deliver satisfaction.
Sorta upside down isn’t it?!