Why Can’t Man Fulfil His Desires?

WHY CAN’T MAN FULFILL HIS DESIRES? Man has to use the opportunities available in the present world as per God’s creation plan and then become eligible to live amidst eternal joy in Paradise. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was an English poet. He once remarked, “Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.” It is a matter of everyday experience. Many people love to hear tragic stories. Popular novels are more often than not tragedies rather than comedies. Likewise, singers who sing sad songs are usually popular. Why is this so? Why is it that sad poems or sad stories succeed in striking the chords of people’s hearts? It is because every person, in practice, lives in a psyche of deprivation or frustration. In such a situation, a happy story seems somehow unreal to them. In contrast to this, a sorrowful tale seems more natural to them. If you study the issue in greater depth, you will realize that man is a pleasure-seeking being. In the vast universe, man is a remarkable creature. He is the only creature who has an acute sense of pleasure. It is a uniquely human attribute that man can enjoy pleasure. In the vast universe, there are many creatures, but man’s unique ability is the quality of enjoying pleasure in this way. For man, thinking can be a pleasure, as can seeing, hearing, speaking, eating, drinking, smelling, touching, and even walking barefoot on the grass. However, there is a strange contradiction