Forgive me if my details are a bit long:
I find that the human condition is a constant struggle, that selfishness always wants to win out, that inner peace took years of work and can be very fragile if I do not put taking care of myself FIRST so I can help others.

The developed world, where we have the room to work on ourselves as described above, is built on the backs of starving war-torn and oppressive nations that our governments use as chess pieces and to preach sweetness and light is to deny and insult those folks (who won't be reading this anyway, so I guess that makes it okay with some folks.

Tom Waits: What Keeps Mankind Alive

So my question is this: do the happy happy people deny reality, ignore the process of growing up, walk around blind to how selfish and egotistic they are while they wrap themselves in their imaginary beautiful behavior, or are they just expecting better from us than they would consider being themselves?

James Truslow Adams, in his book The Epic of America, which was written in 1931, stated that the American dream is "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position." (p.214-215)

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what should we want from life...?

please tell me what should a normal person wants from life ? what should his aim in life? which things he/she requires from life? and what should he/she achieve from life before death??

Any rubbish you leave gets thrown out. Anything worth having your relatives fight over, first come first served. All your money goes to the solicitor handling your afairs. Anything else goes to the charity shop. If theres anything left thats been missed after that its sold to pay for your funeral.

Have a nice day, and may the odds always be in your favour.

The ultimate meaning can only come from the ultimate source of meaning.
And that is God. In the Person of the Son God has revealed that He is love. And that love is the most important gift that He gives us. Love of God and our fellow man is what it is really all about. Yet we do not love God or our fellow man as we should. Which is why God sent his Son to show us the way and give us the grace to be children of God. We just need to accept his salvation.