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What are you chasing?

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We had a serious task as boys, some few decades ago. Our work was interesting but intensified during every vacation with colleagues of equal mischief and energy in the neighbourhood. Our duty was simply hunting for selected insects and reptiles, rodents, birds among others. We hunted for lizards by stoning them, chased rats and mice in our area, and also disturbed the grasshoppers in our small football field at the village. It was fun then playing and chasing these vulnerable animals in the sunny fields, but we became very exhausted by the end of every hunting episode, and will peacefully sleep without eating. Similarly, in our lives too, many of us are still chasing our dreams, security, money and endless drills of comfort or chasing work deadlines, prestige, pleasures and positions for recognition. Some of us too appear to be chasing approval or love from others. People are chasing people, with others too chasing the latest trend in technology, fashion, gossip etcetera. Som