AMERICAN DREAM.....DON'T BE FOOLED!

 

 

 

Aspiring for success and personal gain? Here is a secular perspective that will open your eyes. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, celebrity Brad Pitt reflected about a man who has the American dream yet remains unsatisfied, empty and unfulfilled….

 

Pitt: “Man, I know all these things are supposed to seem important to us - the car, the condo, our version of success - but if that's the case, why is the general feeling out there reflecting more impotence and isolation and desperation and loneliness? If you ask me, I say toss all this - we gotta find something else. Because all I know is that at this point in time, we are heading for a dead end, a numbing of the soul, a complete atrophy of the spiritual being. And I don't want that.”

 

Rolling Stone: So if we're heading toward this kind of existential dead end in society, what do you think should happen?

 

Pitt: “Hey, man, I don't have those answers yet. The emphasis now is on success and personal gain. I'm sitting in it, and I'm telling you, that's not it. I'm the guy who's got everything. I know. But I'm telling you, once you've got everything, then you're just left with yourself. I've said it before and I'll say it again: it doesn't help you sleep any better, and you don't wake up any better because of it.”

 

 

THE PROBLEM:

  

 ”I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.” Ecclesiastes 1:14 (Apart from God it is all vanity and a chasing of the wind.)

 

THE ANSWER:

And Jesus said unto them, “I am the bread of life: he that cometh to Me shall never hunger; and He that believeth on Me shall never thirst.” John 6:35