What causes a sense of emptiness, sometimes even after success ? How can we deal with it ? When you finally achieve a long-desired goal, how should you be feeling ? Euphoric, excited, energized, full of plans – right ? This is what you wanted, planned and worked hard for. Life from here on should be satisfaying and happy. And yet so many feel this gaping hole right after the achievement of a goal – a void that belies the sense of success. It is almost as if the striving and yearning was far more exciting than the prize that is in your hands now. Young men and women who have been lucky enough to achieve their hearts’ desire and get coveted job or academic assignment are suddenly at a loss, feeling this deep sense of emptiness. They talk about it and the pain of that emptiness pushes many into depression and a state of hopelessness. What went wrong ? The pursuit of the goal sometimes becomes so important that it become one’s life – and without the task that has been c...