Developing the right perspective of life

Abstract

I have worked for thirty years occupying various positions in several organizations. Yet I suffer from a feeling of hollowness... I have retired from services two years back. After my retirement I fell empty and at times even get a sense of being a defeated person in life… I am quite wealthy and materially very well endowed in life. Despite this I feel something missing in my life... These are some of the comments that some of us have come across during the last several years. These comments raise certain fundamental questions about some of the ideas we have about life. Why does a materially rich person still feel missing something in life? Will retirement suddenly take away all the valuable things about you to make you feel empty? In all these cases one can perhaps come to the conclusion that they have developed wrong perspectives of life and have been pursuing wrong objectives. Some turn of events in their life (often very late) led them to a state of confusion or made them realize that what they thought will make them happy indeed did not............