There's Gotta Be More To Life

There's Gotta Be More To Life-Stacie Orrico
I've got it all, but I feel so deprived,
I go up, I come down and I'm emptier inside,
Tell me what is this thing that I feel like I'm missing.
And why can't I let it go?

There's gotta be more to life...
Than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me.
Cause the more that I'm...
Tripping out thinking there must be more to life.
Well it's life, but I'm sure... there's gotta be more.
(Than wanting more)

I've got the time and I'm wasting it slowly
Here in this moment I'm half way out the door.
Onto the next thing, I'm searching for something that's missing.

There's gotta be more to life...
Than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me,
Cause the more that I'm...
Tripping out thinking there must be more to life.
Well it's life, but I'm sure... there's gotta be more

I'm wanting more! (Ohhh! Yeah!)

I'm always waiting on something other than this
Why'm I feelin' like there's something I missed?

There's gotta be more to life
Than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me.
Cause the more that I'm... (More that I'm)
Tripping out thinking there must be more to life
Well it's life, but I'm sure
there's gotta be more to life

Than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me
Cause the more that I'm...
Tripping out thinking there must be more to life.
Well it's life, but I'm sure... there's gotta be more to life.

More to, more to, more to life.
(There's gotta be more to life) More to, more to, more to life.
There's gotta be more
More to life
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The reason why I put up the lyrics of this song, is because I feel we can relate it to the daughter in the story of Mid-Autumn.

"There's gotta be more to life than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me."
Let's say Stacie Orrico was the daughter.
Surely these lyrics clearly shows that there's something missing in her life, something hollow that even the temporary high (high-paying jobs/success) cannot satisfy and give her that completeness. She just needed to do something that fills up that emptiness within her.

"I got it all, but I feel so deprived."
The daughter graduated from medical school with a degree but yet she feels something was lacking. Her parents sacrificed their time, their money just to give the best for their daughter's future but she ended up wanting to be a missionary in Uganda.
The daughter finally found the missing piece in her life which gives her completeness inside.

We can use the Maslow's Hierachy Of Needs to clearly define the highest level of completion which is, Self-Actualization. The daughter fulfilled the second top level before she decided to head to Uganda. That was when she discovered that there's gotta be more to life than chasing every temporary high. Stopping at the second level could not bring her the real joy in life. Money cannot buy joy, money cannot fill up the hollowness.

Her parents whereas do not understand this joy of "life-completion". Typical normal Singaporeans would only think that the second topmost level of the Hierachy is the most important of all and that would be the most satisfying thing in life, nothing more to it. (Then we can bring in the paper-chase issue in Singapore which causes this mentality) The mother thinks her daughter is crazy that the doctors' lifestyle held little appeal to her while doing missionary work held much appeal to her. Perhaps the mother do not know where the real contentment in life is from. All she knows is that money brings contentment, success brings contentment and that would be the best of the best, not knowing that actually such missionary work of helping others brings fulfillment in life. So, in a way, the daughter actually realizes what she really wants in life which brings her to the higher level of satisfaction.

-Evangeline(: