> If one is not secure in his/her self, he/she is going to substitute the
> desire to attain a healthy goal for the numbing qualities
> of instant gratification. I think that one desires such fulfillment
> because they think it can be achieved, yet the desire is based on an
> imagined sense that happiness can ultimately be found through some
> predetermined form of what "happiness" and "security"
> are learned and/or imagined to be.
"Desire *is* the enemy"
-- Buddha (paraphrase)
Happiness -- like success -- is a way of life, not a destination.
ERiC
and the meaning of life is what you make of it...