The elusive ‘IT’. IT will make me happy; IT will fill the void; IT will satisfy me; when I achieve IT, goodbye questions and unknowns.
But what is IT? There are as many descriptions of IT as there are people on this earth. A new car or house, a wife or husband, new job, enough food to eat, a shelter, more clothes or perfume or make-up, more money, reach the pinnacle of professional success – each individual search brings with it the potential to be satisfied, to have that all-encompassing knowledge that IT has been realized.
But each one who has pursued their personal quest and succeeded has come to the conclusion that IT does not placate the void that aches deeply inside of each one of us.
So that’s IT? I just exist on this planet to wander about aimlessly, searching endlessly for gratification that never gratifies? For fulfilment that never fulfills? The thought is overwhelming in its emptiness and hopelessness!
But then maybe there is a pursuit that we have totally forgotten about – the pursuit of the real IT. In all our meanderings to be fully at peace have we ever had that light-bulb moment when we are like, ‘Of course, this IT I am chasing has to be bigger that I am. IT has to be outside of myself. If I get IT I can also get rid of IT. What if IT has been there all along waiting to be found but I’ve been wandering about missing IT so many times because my search has been in the wrong place’?
Now things are starting to fall into line – our search to fill the void changes course. We begin to ask pertinent questions. ‘Why am I here? What is my purpose? Where am I headed?’ And then IT comes into focus; in fact, as shocking as it sounds, IT has changed to WHO.