Our Need to Pursuit
Subscribe Free Most of our lives are spent pursuing something. A title. A partner. A career. A possession. A version of success we were told would finally make us whole. From childhood we are trained to reach, to strive, to chase what seems just beyond us. Rarely do we pause long enough to ask what would happen if we stopped pursuing anything. At first, not pursuing can feel unsettling. Without a next goal, restlessness appears. Boredom surfaces. A quiet anxiety hums beneath the surface. Our culture calls this emptiness, but often it is space. And in that space, we begin to hear ourselves again. We begin to notice the subtle life that was always happening beneath the noise of constant becoming. Science shows much of our motivation runs on cycles of anticipation, reward, and emotional drop. We chase. We get or we miss. Then we crash. Then we chase again. Over time, life becomes an endless loop of “not yet.” But when we loosen our grip on constant pursuit, something soft...