It makes me sad how perscription pill abuse is shooting through the roof. Prescription pills and plastic surgery are perfect pinnacles of human corropution - gaining wealth from human insecurities. Its a little offputting that doctors have adopted a method of medicating people to fix their emotional problems. Depression/ anxiety/ ADD - those are all in your HEAD. I mean, as much as a pill may cause you to think you're happier, if everything else around you stays the same, are you really going to feel better about the things in your life? It's almost like we're trying too hard to obtain human perfection. However, 'perfect' is a subjective term. So it seems odd to me that we center so much attention around gaining something that doesn't exist?

I guess if you glance through human history, satisfaction has always been built around subjective/invisible constructs - love, religion, wealth, beauty, happiness, etc. etc. Then, the really ironic thing is that we use objective things to obtain them - a ring, a bible, a dollar, a surgery, or even a pill. I think that's where we're going wrong. Rather than turning to materialism, we should look within ourselves to find fulfillment - and only then will we be happy.