What do we want?

08/08/2025 Nilson Lattari

In life, we often search for answers about our future. We look for premonitions and try to anticipate or guess future events, and resist the natural flow of time. In short, we try to imagine what will happen in the future to avoid or challenge it.
The question is: Are we prepared to know the future? Would we be comfortable living our lives naturally, even if we already knew our destiny? In reality, would we like to know the day of our death? Would we want to know the moment when we will meet our true love or when we will find our dream job? Apart from the day of our death, which we can avoid, we would certainly like to meet our love or have a brilliant career.
Perhaps the real questions are: if we could know our future, would we still dream in life to reach our goals? Would we still imagine our dreams?
When we search for goals, we are actually setting strategies to make our dreams come true, not trying to guess the future. We try to anticipate our future through our imagination. So, pursuing goals is the reason for our existence.
No one dies before their time, and no one needs to know their future or anticipate it. When we try to know the future, we are searching for a fictional life. We live in the fiction of adventures, and this attitude disturbs us, because we need to face or go around true difficulties. We often imagine life like a game of luck or bad luck. We are part of this game; some people give up, others keep playing. We know that it is not easy to reach goals without understanding that destiny is not responsible for helping us in this board game called life. We play this huge puzzle, a dice game thrown in the air, good for some, bad for others.
We are not always searching for something specific. We are simply human, shaped by a society full of mistakes and holes where we can hide until the storm passes. Or we are living in open fields, ready to face the unknown.
We search for dreams because we need to live our lives, and we are always trying to solve this complex way of living in society.
If we knew every answer about life, what would be the meaning of living? We would be like robots following protocols and pursuing specific goals for the benefit of society, the collectivity.
If we are truly searching for something, maybe our satisfaction. When we search for what others do, it becomes a competition, not a pursuit of dreams, but of victories. This competition will put us over others, and others over us, like a game where people can be lucky or be losers.
The greatest competition in life is facing our biggest opponent: ourselves. Searching for our truths and goals is the real search.