The pursuit : where it leads to?

I have always wondered as to what exactly do we want out of our lives? Is it lots and lots of money, admiration, respect etc. though i believe these are the things really important but not worth dying for. We want to earn best grades academically, perform the best in our professional careers and we put a lot of effort in this direction also. It's worth praise, i agree. A politician puts all efforts in slyness and what he gets out of it is money and ultimately power(i wont offend a few who are really dedicated towards uplifting of masses and they have no doubt given their energy to it). All kinds of people of different professions perhaps never had time and occasion to realize as to what they were living for. we earn money but for what? A few save them so much so that they just have one thing in mind and that is earning and saving them. Their world ends there.
Everything rotates about a center. Even our lives. It moves in a relatively bigger circle and we standing at the circumference don't realize as to what we are circulating about. it needs our quality time in thoughts to find it. sometimes we find it to be money, power or fulfilling one or the other basic and non needs of living . center is the point which we are unconsciously looking for and which brings real happiness in our lives. its the thing which is indispensable.
we suffer from obsession of many kinds and it influences our lives in different ways and taking away the basic purpose. In the pursuit of obsessions, we do not place that importance to thinking about the overall direction the life takes. we fail to look from a greater altitude.

I am reminded of the story which we studied in our class 9 th. "The country of blinds" where people just forgot what the word eye and vision meant.They were just oblivious of it. Our priorities have so changed that we have forgotten what we actually need. Stop and take a breath, you will find you aren't born to just do a 9 to 5 job which gives you bread but not satisfaction. Power which gives you vanity and conceit but no real lasting happiness. what i feel at the end is, though its necessary to work for our livelihood but wait.. it does not eat away your peace and serenity of mind. it doesn't spread cutting your independence. and your worries don't throw aside the meaning of your life.
peacefulness and equanimity is the greatest virtue perhaps..

Whatever you may name it..

Love is an emotion which everyone nurtures at some point in his life. sentimentality at its peak, so much so that there is hardly any difference between a goddess and her. its such a pious feeling, unless its one of the diversions of love. an amazing feeling which takes away all your attention and everything else in its lap. your whole life is almost guided by this feeling.
but life is based on compromises. some one said it rightly and gave a lot of people this logic of compromise to falsify their emotions and to forget everything which was naturally coming to them.
In every case integrity was the word which was compromised. Integrity is to stand by what you believe in. The word stand by is used only because its hard to listen to your heart in face of difficulties. Listening to your heart means a lot of consequences which people in the normal world cannot endure. its so hard to sustain because we have other desires too to fulfill.
We all may have cried for someone we loved.we loved them so strongly that nothing tangible could limit its boundaries. but sometimes it so happened that the person standing before us didn't comprehend that feeling of love and we were left suffocated. and at that point of time we were left with two ways out. leave the person and find someone else, and for sure the same feeling wont touch us again. or struggle solitary with the self and still love that person. The latter case depends on magnitude of intangible thing you had. you cannot compromise with anyone else on earth.
in my perspective, its difficult to compromise with our own honesty.