Thirsty

I remember walking by a pop machine one time. Actually, I've walked by quite a few machines of the dispensing variety (loaded with sugar or otherwise). But this particular machine led rise to an epiphany that has been plaguing my mind since my footsteps traversed beneath the shadow of cold red machine with its ominous product placement, waking me late at night to a cool sweat and a million pseudo-religious thoughts ripping through my mind, numbing my brain. As I recall, I walked by the machine rather nonchalantly. As I passed by however, I glanced over at it. Immediately I began to feel increasingly thirsty; I wanted some coke (no not the illegal stuff). Upon further inspection, I found that it wasn’t the big red coke label on the machine that made me thirsty, nor the hip and moderately sexy looking (at least I think they were, nobody uses ugly people in advertising) young people holding up some pop cans (which is odd because I think this machine sold bottles, not cans). It was the numerous images of tiny water droplets that covered the big red coke label. What I really wanted was cool, clear and pure Dihydrogen monoxide. Instead, my mind had been tricked into wanting what the much more prominent coke label was offering; a false solution to what I really desired.
So to, do we often desire certain other things. Unfortunately, things like wealth, lust and sex (of the let’s screw everybody cause it feels good variety) rear their ugly heads, offering themselves as a solution to our needs. We feel that these are the things that will quench our thirsts and desires. In actuality however, what we really need and desire are happiness, joy and companionship. I wonder where we could get those things...? Anywho, I guess it just seems like the world is offering quick, easy, seemingly good (tasting or otherwise) solutions to the emptyness in our lives... and they make us go pee too (there might be a deep metaphor in there somewhere).