For many, such opportunities would be a lifetime ambition which they never succeed or fulfil. For Solomon, this was just one of many directions which his experiment took him in. He got to the end of these projects and stood back and considered what he had done. Did this fill him with a deep sense of satisfaction so that he could take something permanent away with him, and say, this is true happiness? No, he got to the end and he realised that he had been deceived in thinking this could give him what he was looking for. How many never see this clearly because they do not arrive at their goal and convince themselves that their sense of unease arises from not completing their task? How many fail to diagnose the disease of covetousness that lies buried in their hearts? Let us wake up and see the nature of the treadmill that this world puts us on and get off it before we spend the whole of life going nowhere.