The Teacher looked at the utter meaningless nature of purely human pursuits based on this world. The Teacher shows that the chase of human wisdom, pleasure, achievement, work, accumulation, wealth, etc. all lead to naught. None of these things ultimately satisfy any man or woman, but actually lead to despair and other issues.
There are so many people successful in the world's eyes - or others, like me, who finally achieve their goals in life - that end up asking themselves the question, "Is this all there is?" What we think is our penultimate pinnacle that we worked so hard to get, really isn't that satisfying - sometimes we see that there are others with more - and we want what they have too - but the problem is that there is always someone with more.
To find true joy in life, we all need to get to the place that things of this world will satisfy us - God made us to never be satisfied with the things of the world - at least as an end in themselves. Sold-out radical Christianity requires this learning.
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