What do you want in life!!!

 Well this I have been pondering over this question for a while now, may be months if not years and I have not been able to figure out what exactly I need from my life. And I am sure many of you would relate to me because I believe everyone thinks the same thing at some point of his or her life.

May be right now you are busy with your life. Traveling, making a career, building a company or just simple stuff that occupies most of our time. But sooner or later your mind will take you back to this very basic question that what exactly do you need. Where are you headed in your life and why are you doing whatever you are doing in your life right now?

Not many people have been able to figure this out and many who think that they had, come back to the same conundrum after achieving whatever they were striving for when they previously came across this thought.

I have had different career paths. I have achieved a moderate amount of success in my career and business both but after doing all that I am wondering why I did all this. What was the point of going through pain and all those struggles if after doing all this I am still wondering where life is taking me and I am still clueless as anybody else what all those actions and success means to me because though my moderate success did give me some amount of pleasure but that was temporary and after a while I was back to square one. 

Is keeping yourself busy the only way to prevent this question from crossing your mind?

Do we need to work like machines and run after materials to ensure that our mind does not ponder over uncomfortable but important questions like these?

I know that some things are very important in our lives, our family, our work, our friends but where do I fit in as a personal. 

Do I exist just because of my family, colleagues and friends? 

How do I define myself and what does it mean for me to be in this world?

These are some of the questions I always struggle with and would really like help from someone if he or she has been able to figure this out.

Waiting for your valuable response and any way to break through this mental cage of thoughts that has been hitting me hard for some time now.