What A World

A year where a pandemic spreads across the world, riots burn down buildings, cities destroyed, violence active, evil surrounds. This is what the world looks like now. All around people search, seeking satisfaction, eager for an antidote to this anxiety, depression, and sin that is slowly stealing every breath they breathe.

C.S. Lewis once said, “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”

Examining the world and its actions now, I agree with Lewis. We are in a world where anyone can look around and see everyone is crawling just to find the “gold” that they think is what they need to satisfy, to please, to make them happy. People become unhappy with their lives or who they are, so they think changing that, or attempting to escape from it will satisfy them, when in reality, it only makes it worse. All around, people are changing them. Changing genders, changing parts of their body with surgeries or injections, turning to someone of the opposite gender to take their mind away maybe even just for a moment, maybe just even a night, and sometimes it’s even trying to do things that we know are wrong, but it all seems to possibly achieve that happiness, and satisfaction we are seeking. Seek, desire, and pursue anything that meets the requirements of satisfaction. Our world is consumed with an existentialist point of view. Do whatever you want, whatever makes you happy, you do you, even if it’s the most terrible thing in the world… if it’s what you want, do it. “But my sin was this, that I looked for pleasure, beauty, and truth not in Him, but in my self and his other creatures, and the search led me instead to pain, confusion, and error.”

- St. Augustine.

In the wise words of Augustine, he realized the pain and disappointment the world sells. This is something that the world overlooks now. No one understands the lies the world is selling and everyone buys into them. People change who they are, what they look like, and seek worldly things. After so much time passes, everything comes to light, what they once sought for peace, satisfaction, and total completion in, it disappears. For a moment, a second, peace enters, but as fast as it arrives, it exits faster. The world quickly finds that nothing in this world will satisfy. This points to only one thing, we were made for another world.