Chasing after the wind

Ecclesiastes 7:29 See, this alone I found, that God made human being straightforward, but they have devised many schemes.

Our society is obsessed with analyzing life to try to find meaning, but does all their research lead them to truth?

It seems people are obsessed with over analyzing everything that happens in life to find the causes, effects, the beginnings and endings, to find patterns, to make statistics, to try to suck all the meaning out of the myriads of information at our disposal. Does it do us any good?

In her day, Jane Austen was a great novelist... she observed feelings and emotions, the social situations and intrigue that occurred in family life and wrote about it, usually giving ironic insight into the lives of women which would be little known or shared otherwise. Her precocious analysis and keen pen seemed to assist the idea that women are intelligent and can be analytical without being unfeminine in a time when people widely believed that if a woman studied too much she would be barren.

In Ecclesiastes, King Solomon writes about all of his examinations of human life and all of his observations and experiences as "chasing after the wind"--everything is vanity. Ecclesiastes 8:16-17 "when I applied my mind to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how one's eyes see sleep neither day nor night, then I saw all the work of God, that no one can find out what is happening under the sun. However much they may toil in seeking, they will not find it out; even though those who are wise claim to know, they cannot find it out."

I see so many people debating issues that don't seem to hold any actual meaning, as if flaying down every aspect of life into the most minute parts will spark open this key to life and we will get the meaning from it. What I see instead is just tired, cranky people staring at little tiny numbers and arguing over what they mean.

This cannot be the way. Isn't everyone tired? Isn't everyone sick of pretending? There is meaning in life, but you won't find it in little tiny numbers...