Sick as a DOG

I have been laying around my house for the past 3 days sick as a dog and even as I say that phrase I am wondering why we use it?  Poor dogs, they probably wonder too. Anyways, to pass the time away I should probably be reading or working on homework but instead have been indulging in LOST the television series and realized just how much I think I would enjoy being stranded on an island. Well, only if Jack Shepherd, John Locke, Kate, Sayid, Charlie and Sawyer were there too.  It would be so wonderful to look around and have to start from scratch everything you were handed on a silver platter back home.  I love the phrase that was repeated in season 1 "Everyone gets a fresh start here on the island."  Every time I heard it I was almost jealous because I think everyone wants a fresh start or maybe it's more the feeling of newness and being able to be who you want to be rather than who people still remember you as, which may not be a bad thing but still the idea of something new is extremely appetizing.  It is a never ending process, the wanting of the new and getting rid of the old.  Because there will always be something newer. In our world today it is so easy to get caught in the trap of never being satisfied.  I see it so often and definitely find myself being pulled in that direction as well.  We are hungry for the best because commercials, stores, celebrities and people everywhere have been telling us that they can satisfy that craving and make you content.  Isn't that what we all want?  Contentment?  To finally sit back and be able to look out at our perfect surroundings and just say "Ahhh this is it."  What I am getting at is that we will never find that here on earth.  How can I prove this statement? Simply by asking you to reveal yourself if you are completely content and have been for more than a day or even a couple hours.  I am not saying that it is impossible to be happy but simply stating that true contentment that lasts and is completely satisfying is unable to be reached.  We can try and try and try but the fact of the matter is that unless you realize you cannot be satisfied here on earth you will never understand why that new TV or new outfit just doesn't seem to get the job done.  It is only when you say "enough" that you can stop searching and start breathing in the closest thing to being satisfied here that we can get and that is the creation all around us.  The air, the trees, the sun and ocean everything around us is a picture of our whole and perfect maker who is the only way...