People today are looking for happiness and fulfillment in all the wrong places. The world promises these things but it never really delivers. People may experience temporary pleasures but in the end they pay such a high price for it, i.e. they pay with their souls. Consequently, their hearts are pierced with many sorrows and they lose everything in the process. People can only find true salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. That's the only thing that is reliable in this world and in the next.