What is Life - Living with contentment or chasing the dreams?

Of late I am getting this basic question - Is life about knowing and living or is it solving a series of problems?

We all have millions of wishes and wants in life. And not all of them are fulfilled and most of them seem unaccomplishable. We will not be happy if we have these unfulfilled wishes. Then how do we live? Do we devote our entire life to keep fulfilling these wants/wishes one by one, by removing the obstacles that prevent us from fulfilling these? or do we invest our energy in understanding how to live with what we have, since anyway this wish list is a never ending one?

I think the typical western approach to life has been of the former one while that of easter the latter. Is this why we easterners tend to ignore the problems and 'adjust' while a westerner wants to conquer it and move on. But throughout your life if you keep conquering when will you get time to rest your mind and be calm?

Of late I am finding no interest in doing anything. When I started thinking deeper I started realizing that I don't have a bigger motive or a bigger problem to solve. For last few years I constituted myself as a 'possibility of empowerment'. I said my life is all about empowering myself and the world around me. In living that way there was a goal to achieve, or at least I could create goals that I would strive after. In last few months 'empowerment' is appearing as a fix I came up with, a fix to life which was otherwise worthless. By declaring myself as the one standing for empowerment I could attribute some value to my life, make it worth living. In doing so I think, though I created a context, at the background was the fact that if not empowerment my life is worthless. That's why I called it a fix and not a context created to live.

So when I figured out that what I need is a bigger challenge, a bigger problem to solve, I started thinking, what if that problem is solved or if I find that problem no more calling [me into action]. Will I be blanked out again? What is the basic approach to life?

But as I write this I am remembering the words of my coach(es) - that a created context is not real. It's just a context that lets me take actions, keeps me working, keeps me satisfied with myself and my life and ultimately lets me have peace of mind - moment to moment. So it is time for creating yet another context, one that calls me into some action. I want to go to primary school and teach young children, just to be around them, learn from them, be with them.

As I write this, over and over I am being called into the possibility of love - pure universal love. It is interesting fact that in my Landmark courses when somebody declared love as a possibility I told myself that this (love) is one thing I will never create as a possibility. To me it looked just next to impossible - but now I am being called by it. And with it I am also feeling compassion to fellow dwellers. And as I complete this I can see my breathing has is following a gentle rhythm, as if I just came out of meditation !!!