WHAT IS MISSING INSIDE ME?

We have everything… or so it seems. But something is always missing. We laugh, we succeed, we acquire, we share… and yet our eyes are always on the next thing. A void within us continues to grow, silently.

In this feeling — which has become one of the major issues of our time — many people, whether in work, social life, or relationships, struggle to say “enough.” We are immersed in a culture that constantly demands more, always pushing us toward something better.

Most of the time, we can’t even name it. Maybe it’s a sense of lack, maybe a search… or maybe just a quiet fatigue. Like an invisible hand, it gently strokes our heads, sneakily. It circulates within us like a thirst. No matter how much we drink, we’re never quenched.

No matter how much we own, it’s never enough. This is, in a way, a problem of too many expectations. Because the issue isn’t about having something — sometimes, we don’t even know what we want to have.

Trapped between the anxiety of the future and the burden of the past, the individual becomes unable to live in the present moment. Yet, fulfillment often comes from being at peace with the now. There is no limit to consumption, but there is a limit to satisfaction. Knowing where to stop is a form of wisdom.

We want everything instantly. But this leads to impatience and dissatisfaction in things that require long-term effort — like creating a work of art or building a career.

When success is based on external approval, inner fulfillment gives way to an endless pursuit of “more.” And deep down, that feeling of something missing continues.

Perhaps we’ve even forgotten how to listen to ourselves, worn out from watching other people’s lives…

Eventually, we lost sight of our own. That’s why everything feels like a fleeting excitement… and afterward, the same emptiness returns. No matter what we buy, wear, or where we go, that missing piece inside isn’t filled — because, in truth, it’s not a place that can be completed from the outside.

Dissatisfaction isn’t a form of deprivation. It’s a kind of loneliness that grows when we lose our connection with ourselves. Everything begins the moment we forget that peace should be sought not outside, but within.

Maybe now is the time to pause.

Not to add more — but to let go of the excess.

Not just to look, but to see; not just to hear, but to feel.

It’s time to reconnect with ourselves, to understand what we truly need, and to reach inward.

We must live not by the goals others draw for us, but by our own values. We must recognize what we have without devaluing it — and remain in a space of gratitude and appreciation.

As we said, dissatisfaction is often not from lack, but from excess. Excessive expectations, excessive comparisons… And yet, in this very excess, the purest joys are lost. They are hidden in a glance, in a moment of silence, in a deep breath — but we blindly search for them in grand things.

And in the end, we realize that the true satisfaction we seek lies in the stillness of our inner world — it’s hidden in meaning, in connection, in essence.

Who knows? Sometimes the greatest sense of completion comes not from adding anything — but simply from staying as you are.

Or sometimes, maybe, we find inner peace only through letting go. What do you think?

Seher BAKIM