Who are we and what do we want?

What do we want; what do you want? I've always wondered about what could be the ultimate human desire, what do we really want like deep down; what's the one thing that if we got then we would say our body, soul and mind would now be satisfied and at ease without wanting anything else henceforth; what else would you seek if hypothetically you were the only human being on the planet and everything was yours by default? Why do we seem to never get enough of anything, always wanting more and more be it wealth power, sex, or are we looking for satisfaction in the wrong things or is it a case of not really knowing what we want?

You see the question of what is our ultimate desire is quite similar to the question of who we are. “Who are you?” is one of the simplest straightforward questions on the level of socialising and yet one of the most mysterious questions on a philosophical level. When answered superficially one would say their name, race, gender, education, age, country and other forms of identities but these identities are only based on our personal history of what we've done and our physicality; how would we define ourselves at the exact moment of birth assuming we were conscious enough?

Who we are is mostly based on an idea of ourselves for social identification purposes in a social setup and not who the Being itself is which is a unfathomable mystery to ourselves because we cannot be the object of our own observation just like we cannot look at our own eyes without using a mirror. In other words we don't know what or who we are but somehow we've lied to ourselves through social identity that we know who we are, and when we're asked who we are we automatically give an history of who we are and not who we actually are because the actual us is a cosmic blind-spot, a mysterious organism-environment happening of itself spontaneously in nature.

Now, back to what we want and why we seem to not really know what we want because the moment we get what we thought would make us happy we only celebrate for a short time and then embark again on yet another journey of getting the next thing that we think will make us happy, always chasing the next happiness like a dog chasing it's own tail. Why do we seem to not know what we really want? Maybe we already have what we want right under our nose but we can't see it because we're always looking for it elsewhere out there in other things and not in the here and now. Most of human suffering is not as a result of hunger, physical pain or any physical calamities but psychological; it is as a result of us complicating the simple gifts of nature, not enjoying them in their simplicity just like other forms of life.

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