Missing links

Listening to One by U2.

Have you come here for forgiveness? Have you come to raise the dead? Have you come here to play Jesus to the lepers in your head?

Love these lines. Maybe just for the way they sound. Or maybe they have a profound meaning that barely just eludes me. I have a sneaky feeling that I probably love these lines only because their profound meaning is almost but not quite understood.

Which makes me think.

Sometimes things that are not served on a platter are a little more appetising than ones that are. Tantalising - that's the word I'm looking for. (I remember I had a huge argument with a copywriter on the meaning of that word. We looked up the meaning of the word and I was right. It means 'teasingly unattainable' and not 'desirable'.)

So like the meaning of these lines some things should be tantalising. They are spoilt if begotten. The little bit that eludes you is what matters the most.

Another theory on the same. We are destined to unhappiness as a race because we always strive to attain everything - be it knowledge, information, love, money or just about anything - completely. Unconsciously we are strivng for all or nothing. Which means we can either get all, so we get bored and insecure about losing it. Or we get part, which feels like nothing. No wonder we are all so fucked up as we are fucked either way.

I think happiness is in not having it all and not knowing it all. I'm not sure I agree with myself but logic from some inane song lyrics (however much I like them) can only get me there.