Approaching buddhism

Reading back some old posts and old thoughts of mine on how it was much simpler before I had any possessions, it's interesting to see the parallels with buddhism. That is, the "Dukkha: All worldly life is unsatisfactory, disjointed, containing suffering." as mentioned in the wiki page for buddhism, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism

I'm not quite ready to give up my, "...privilege, rank, caste, and [his] wife and child, to take up the life of a wandering holy man in search of the answer to the problem of birth, old age, sickness, and death" just yet but some days it sounds nice...