Can we ever be fulfilled?

We search our whole lives for something to make us complete. We look for it in people, in places, in hobbies, in academics, in careers, and even in drugs and alcohol. But we never seem to reach that place of true fulfillment. We strive and we push ourselves to the place where we think we will be full and truly happy but we always come up short. Even the things that we think we want more than anything always seem lackluster when we finally get them. Is there any way for us to be full? Is there anything that we can do to reach the point of happiness that we strive for our whole lives? Maybe we aren't meant to be full. Maybe our minds are not wired with the possibility of ever being truly fulfilled. Maybe we are meant to better ourselves and to push forward our whole lives. And if that is the case, then it's best we know now. We should live out lives knowing what we want, but knowing that those things will never truly satisfy us. We should realize that we can be satisfied by many things, but we can't be satisfied forever. Our minds are fickle. We see something, we like it, we go for it, we get it, then we grow bored of it when we see something else that we want more. Think of the toy you wanted when you were a child. You threw a fit and your mother gave in and bought it for you. Then your best friend came over for a play date with her BRAND-NEW-EVEN- COOLER toy and BAM! suddenly your toy just isn't as cool as you thought it was. This is what happens with us in so many things and I believe it is human nature. We alway want more! More! (Not to copy the AT&T commercial, but it is true..) Nothing truly satisfies us as humans. And I think this needs to change. 

We need to understand the value that people and things honestly have. And I believe that if people understood the meaning of things and people, we wouldn't take them for granted and we could, maybe just possibly, be as close to satisfied as our human selves can be.