We search for we, I search for me

As in every story we start our lives young and full of wonder dreaming of adult hood and where our lives will take us.  When we begin to get a little bit older we start to worry more about finding our niche, our place in the suddenly confusing world. Having been taught from a young age that every person is special, and having read all the fairy tales we are sure greatness is in store for us and that the sky is the limit for us and our potential.  This wonderment then turns into a kind of quest for each and every one of us to find that greatness, to search out our own fairy tale and where it will take us.  This quest for ourselves (or a better version of ourselves) can fill our lives and before we know it we are adults and while we feel we should have found that version of ourselves it remains elusive. 

 Much like in the Used music video for “All that I got,” we find ourselves looking for "the ending"and : the happily ever after" we have read so much about not realizing that we may be in a totally different kind of book and that our story may not be of one who achieves it.  Like in the video we become the boy who is searching for how the book ends and this elusive character who seems to have all the answers to his questions. Like we do in life, we want to know all the good parts of our book without enduring the parts which lead up to it.  In the end of the video we find that this man who had the answers to all the boy's questions was just an older version of himself looking for the same thing. So he in turn became the very thing he was searching for, and as has been said so many times before be careful what you wish for.    All along (as in life) the answer to the boys question was in himself and he was the answer, such is life.

We are born into this world alone, and we leave this world the same way and while those closest to us will be most affected by our passing the world will by and large stay the same for all of those who remain.  If we spend too much of our time chasing white rabbits (or old men as in the music video) we ourselves will become these white rabbits (and old men) and we will have forgotten why we began our search in the first place.  This is why it is so important that we realize that it is important to be careful what you search for, and that we realize that life is about the journey not the destination.  That the answers do not matter unless we can achieve them ourselves, for we are born into this world the same as we leave this world with everything we need to achieve our dreams.  As in the music video we are the answers to our own questions and the author of our own lives.