If Only Syndrome

Today I found something that I wrote awhile back. It was about a disease that I have now decided to call "If Only" Syndrome. Most have experienced it. It's the mindset that happiness is being held right outside of your reach. It's next point up on the ACT or the final that could bring your teetering grade up a letter. It's the missing point that would have won the game. It's the half second that you need to shed off your race time to make the state cut. It's the 10 pounds you know you'd look better without. It's the one more hour of sleep that you know would make you finally feel rested. It's the one more bite that you bet will make you full. It's that clothing item in the window that's just $15 beyond what you've got in your pocket. It's the relationship with a specific someone that you know will never be. It's the time that you totally freaked out and walked away, too scared to try. It's the approval from people you would desperately love to impress. It's the jumping and reaching for something just out of your grasp; but each time you touch it, you hit the ground and once again it's gone.
I think we live there too much. And as soon as we get what we've been wanting so desperately, we want something new because we realize what we have is not enough. So we get caught up in this vicious cycle of striving, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always ending up discontent. I mean, look at Pinterest. It's a social media site used to declare to the world that what you already have is not enough. And until you realize that ultimate satisfaction and true joy cannot be found in what you know, what you accomplish, what you own, what you look like, or what people think of you, you will never be truly and completely happy. It takes more. It takes Jesus. Once you have Jesus, what you have doesn't have to be enough. You don't have to be enough. Because Jesus is, always has been, and always will be enough in your place. There's so much peace in that. I wish everyone could experience it. Because, obviously.