Just scan the magazine Ads and TV commercials. Virtually everything is devoted to food, drink, and sex. It’s all about the body: how to clothe it, exercise it, feed it, decorate it, and make it smell good. Even down to footwear: “Are you gellin’? Yeah, and Zinfandelin’ with Helen McClellan.”
I have all these very strong drives. Take sex, for instance. God invented sex. And we’re created with a very strong longing for it. Why did God make it that way? Why do we always seem to want more, more, more?
The Rolling Stones recently completed the most successful world tour in their history, grossing $120 million. Mick Jagger is in the top one-hundred of Britain’s richest people. He has four houses worth over $12 million. He has five children by three different women. His girlfriends have included some of the most beautiful women in the world. Yet his friend Keith—as in Keith Richards—said, “99% of the male population of the Western world—and beyond—would give a limb to live the life of Mick Jagger… but he’s not happy being Mick Jagger.” One magazine article ends by saying, “Nearly 30 years after the Stones’ most defining moment in song… Mick still can’t get no satisfaction.”
Ah, the secret of satisfaction. That’s what this latest edition of Real Life Matters is all about.