I also pray that the veil would be lifted so that we could become more and more aware of how we, too, have become slaves to the extent that we make compromises with modern culture. Shakespeare wrote about the futility of an empty life in Macbeth , and some of us may remember memorizing it back during our school days. The way to dusty death. I offer you a couple of other examples of how monotonous life can become when we do not continually raise our sights to higher things. Or being at a show, or a concert, or even at Mass for some, looking forward to when it will end, thinking about what you will do next .
Shopping does the same thing.
Once the purchases are brought home and put away, the emptiness returns very quickly. The same thing with trophies won, honors received, even victorious elections. Immediately thoughts turn to the next match, the next game, the next level to reach. Addictions are of the same ilk. The things that we get addicted to are so fundamentally unsatisfying that even before the momentary pleasure passes we find ourselves anxious about the next hit, the next thrill, the next hour of our wasted lives.