The asses in one's life.

  
  A young person just launching into adulthood, getting settled in the first job seeks  his first  "S" - Success

  Years passed; he advances in age & experience, gaining understanding & wisdom (probably) together with increasing career stability and upward mobility his eyes shift to his second - S" : $ -  the almighty Dollar.

  More water flows under the proverbial bridge & just  as with the turbulence of the racing waters so it is with the youngster's raging hormones. 

  The third "S" rears it's head - Sex -  a natural DNA pre-determined sensual response. Call it -  'the procreative urge for  ensuring the propagation & continuation of the species'  so to ennoble its actual carnal intent and purely sensual motivation.

  (Besides the noble & glorious functions & purpose of Sex, which mostly is not the actual reason or urge for engaging in the act; there is the (undeniable) exhilaratingly unique sensual pleasures like no other;  which normal beings repeatedly crave indulging in. Thus the act of engaging in the sexual act  which brings that kind of a sensual rush, effectively ensures the survival & propagation of the species. Instead of an intensely pleasurable sensation which is un-achievable by any other means, imagine if sexual orgasms bring unbearably intense painful sensations ? Would any normal/sane person wish to do any sex anytime soon ? And would that not effectively spell the end of the race)

  Much time, energy &  effort were  applied, spent and depleted when the youngster reaches a less robust, less physical, more intellect-dependent state of being when he realizes the physical provides little relief, almost no respite and hardly any complete fulfillment.  

     

                He looks for the forth "S" - Spirit.

  Ideals, aims, goals, must do's, must have's which were main agendas in his earlier (younger) considerations while riding or attempting to mount the crest on the after-burn from the first 3 "S"s now fade from his  primary focus as the  less youthful person turn his focus & dwells on matters more spiritual.

 Thoughts and intellectual activities turn inwards, his spirit (?soul) attempt to reestablish the non-physical bond  with a long lost primal cord  -  an ethereal connection broken & cut loose when the 'being' was 'birthed'  years ago in his murky existential beginnings.

  Seek as he might  though, with all zeal & fervor, his spiritual quest would bring no satisfying soul--quenching elixir of stillness, nor peace-filled centeredness till he aimed his sights at the final 'S'

  The 5th all important "S" in any person's journey towards the Ultimate Truth - the SELF.

When one after an entire life of seeking, would arrive at & be comfortable with  this crucial 5th "S"  -  SELF, one would achieve centeredness, balance & stillness of soul. 
A transitory period in one's life long journey toward the Ultimate at which stage, one is certain of the reachability of the next  stage - Bliss. 

Many seek but do not arrive at  the 5th "S" - SELF.

They cul-de-sac at  an alternative "S"

Their quest culminates & stagnates, when looking in the mirror they see & recognize they had been the hugest 'aSs' ever. 

  Peace is attainable when one arrives, feels one with and is totally home - at one's Spiritual Sanctuary - SELF.

All other stops are only lay byes.