Acharya Prashant explains that everybody, in their own personal way, is seeking fulfillment, and that is love. The form of this seeking changes with age: a young person may seek fulfillment in somebody's body, a middle-aged person in wealth and prestige, and an old person in security and property. Man is always seeking fulfillment according to his place, time, and condition. It is as if man is born to seek fulfillment, always in hope until the last breath, looking for that which can fulfill him. The problem, or the "big letdown," is that we seek fulfillment in our own personal ways. We do not seek absolute fulfillment, but rather fulfillment as we define it. There is a huge difference between seeking that which will really fulfill us and seeking that which we think will fulfill us. The speaker uses the analogy of a thirsty child who thinks a random bottle of fluid will quench his thirst. Upon sipping it, he realizes it's not what he's looking for and it might even hurt him. Yet, he continues his search, trying different things and getting disappointed, even resorting to sucking his own thumb and toe. This cycle of trying and getting disappointed continues until the mother intervenes. The mother knows what the child truly needs, but the child must first struggle to be able to accept it. This analogy represents the typical worldly process of love. We love one thing, then another—be it relationships, jobs, or ideologies—always getting hurt and disappointed but never losing hope that the next thing will bring success. Even spirituality is often treated as just another ideology or object to find fulfillment in. The speaker distinguishes between two types of lovers or seekers. The first is the ego, which wants fulfillment but also wants to preserve itself, leading to a life of compromise and slavery to temporary happiness. The second is the wise person, who places absolute fulfillment at the center and is willing to dissolve the personal self to attain it. In true spiritual fulfillment, upon receiving it, the seeker does not remain; they are dissolved in it. Man has been blessed with the personal freedom to choose. This choice is to either seek fulfillment in one's own limited, personal way, or to simply go to fulfillment itself. There are two kinds of lovers: those who keep themselves at the center of their love, and those who keep fulfillment at the center. The ego loves itself more than contentment and prioritizes self-preservation. It is in a quandary because if it preserves itself, it preserves the thirst. It cannot drink the magical water of fulfillment because that would mean its own dissolution, which is too big a price to pay. So, it vacillates, accepting a diluted and corrupted version of fulfillment, which is a semblance of satisfaction called happiness, and becomes a slave to whatever entity sells that happiness.