Race with no end

Have you watched any television lately? If you did, it can be sure that you saw a message or advertisement expressing the idea of something better. Something that you need and must seek after. Something you must pursue.
I am afraid that this message has carried over and into a literal meaning for happiness. If happiness is pursued, then something is being lost. Once it is objectified, a layer of gloss spreads across the idea in your thoughts. Your idea of happiness is now finite, focused on the goal itself and stripped of its freedom.
I have read over and over again that happiness is not affected after a certain income line. Thus the importance of material items is not the hear all say all. The comforts they bring cannot be denied, but the desires they cause are not always just. Many advertisements carry the message of pursuit, such things as jeans, cars and fame call to us at great lengths. If you only had the 20XX BMW/Porsche/Infinity, you could cruise the coastline and be on top of the world. But once that car/item is obtained, that happiness now relies on you. The pursuit is over and you are now on flat ground. It is up to you were you take that feeling you sought. Is it going to keep moving, or lay dormant, confused on what to do?
Direction. Something we all have found helpful in one way or another, the car is dependent on the directions you give it. So imagine that dream machine, it is struck unless you give it a direction to travel, your input is directly correlated with where it goes.
Yet this is where pursuit is useful. If you know how far you can push yourself, drive and determination are equally as important as direction. The use of your work can have great outcomes if you have meaning throughout the process, letting you create meaning once you have what you were chasing. Giving the bike in the picture the chance of creating equal or more happiness than the cars many of us pursue.