What Do Superstars And Billionaires Need

Superstars

And billionaires

Are said to have everything.

 

Wealth.

Notoriety.

Freedom to go anywhere,

Buy anything.

 

Yet if the lives of superstars

And billionaires are examined,

It is often fraught with a heap of problems

No less intense

Or voluminous

Than those of the common man.

 

Every human being suffers.

The suffering differs

Only in the details.

 

Superstar-ness

And billionaire-ness

Is a worldly achievement.

 

It satisfies

The desire/requirement

To live comfortably

In the world.

 

The man who is unaccomplished,

Unsuccessful,

And struggling

Will often point to superstars and billionaires

And state that despite their wealth and success,

They are still “miserable and unhappy.”

 

Such a man

Is a complete fraud.

 

For though his words

May not be untrue,

His accusation implies

That, in his unaccomplishment and financial struggle,

He has found peace and enlightenment.

 

Poverty,

As noble as society makes it to be,

Is miserable.

 

Wealth and success

Harbor miseries of their own.

 

Running from poverty,

Or running from wealth,

In order to escape misery

Is a no-win proposition.

 

Misery and suffering

Expresses itself

In various forms.

 

For some,

It is sorrow.

 

For some,

It is boredom.

 

For some,

It is conflict.

 

For some,

It is envy.

 

For some,

It is competitiveness.

 

For some,

It is anxiety and fear.

 

There is no end

To the forms of suffering and misery.

 

In this regard,

All humans,

Regardless of status and position,

Are the same.

 

Before one’s societal mind

Begins to chirp,

“Being the same”

Does not mean “equal.”

 

There is a same-ness

With regard to a struggle

That all humans face.

 

But the unaccomplished man

Is NOT the same

As an accomplished one.

 

The driven man

Is NOT the same

As the lazy one.

 

Prizes for participation.

And trophies for effort

Are notions

Of a degraded

And fallen society.

 

Does the superstar

And the billionaire

Truly have “everything?”

 

They have everything

In the Worldly domain.

 

They are lacking

In the Human domain.

 

The Mind

Seeks the worldly domain.

 

The Heart

Seeks the Human domain.

 

The mind rejoices

At the wins

And the windfalls.

 

The heart cries

At the emptiness,

The loneliness,

The conflicts,

The sorrows,

And the fears.

 

The mind’s celebrations

Fade.

 

The heart’s cries

Do not.

 

Therefore,

The presence of suffering

In any of its various forms,

And the actions that it spurs

In order to seek relief from such pains

Demonstrates

A “Need.”

 

For if the superstar

And the billionaire

Had no need,

He would have a life of peace,

Freedom,

Contentment,

And harmony.

 

If he does not,

Then this means

That there is clearly a Need.

 

The Need

Is not something

That the superstar

And the billionaire “should” have.

 

It is a need

That the superstar and the billionaire’s

Very own heart

Cries out for.

 

Therefore,

This need

Is not theoretical,

“Healthy,”

Or “correct.”

 

It is a natural,

Visceral

Longing.

 

If the superstar

And the billionaire

Recognize this need

They will go out in search of it.

 

Many, if not most, of them

Have spent years, if not decades,

Doing this very thing.

 

Many of them

Have hired therapists,

Psychologists,

Psychiatrists,

Life coaches,

Meditation experts,

Spiritual mentors,

And the entire gamut

Of the prescription/method/technique/hack-giving therapeutics

That saturate the world today.

 

If they have found

What their heart seeks,

Then they must now be living a life of peace,

Freedom,

Contentment,

And harmony.

 

If they have not found

What their heart seeks,

Despite years of effort and searching,

Then they do not live a life of peace,

Freedom,

Contentment,

And harmony.

 

If they still live a life of anxiety,

Pain,

Sorrow,

Boredom,

And fear . . .

Then their heart

Continues to cry out.

 

Truth

Lies in the realization

That such modalities and therapeutics

Can never provide

And end to anxiety, fear, sorrow, and boredom.

 

Truth

Lies in the realization

That such modalities and therapeutics

Can never provide

A life of peace,

Freedom,

Contentment,

And harmony.

 

And since virtually no man

Will, in practicality,

Come to this realization,

The superstar

And the billionaire

Will live their entire life

Having had “everything.”

 

Without having had Anything

At All.

 

The superstar

And the billionaire

Will have spent their entire lives

Satisfying the endless whims

Of a hungry mind.

 

But they will die

Without ever having satisfied

The cries of their heart.

 

Thus,

They will die

Poor

And unaccomplished.

 

 

Namaste.