Reading Between the Gray Lines

As we are all well aware of, Shlomo had a rather negative view on life. He was at the point where he considered everything to be hevel. After trying everything and finding it pointless and worthless, Shlomo questioned the meaning of his life and life in general. I was recently informed of how Shlomo's opinion on life might have been drastically different had he realized what he was actually searching for and why.
Shlomo was searching for what he considered to be the truth. However, he was evaluating this "truth" based on what he picked up from the outside world. Shlomo was incredibly wise, but as we know, even he was not wise enough to withstand outside influences; on the contrary, he surrounded himself with them (i.e. foreign wives and wealth, etc). Since he was influenced in so many directions and by so many different things, he began to see the world in a different way, and he also thought that it wouldn't affect him as a person.
The outside world can be said to see things in different shades of gray; good is mixed in with bad, and bad is mixed in with good. There is no definite right or wrong, because everything is muddled together. A lawyer's job is to try to point out where these shades of gray are, and make these "muddles" apparent. In the gentile world, this gray area is common and appreciated. There are at least two sides to every story, two views to every argument, and in most cases the number of differing voices gets much higher than just two. In the ideal Jewish world, this gray area could and should be immediately pointed out for what it is; confusion. What is right should be apparent, and what is wrong should be blatantly obvious. In this perspective, there is simply no room for gray; the truth is in black and white. Now, this obviously does not apply to halachic rulings, because as we all know, those will never be totally in line with each other. This applies to basic right and wrong and how we should navigate through life, because in a Jewish person's eyes, this should be as clear as the difference between day and night.
Shlomo was trying to use the outside world's behaviors and perspectives as a roadmap to the truth. This map was a faulty one, because using it would never actually lead him to anything close to the truth. In fact, it would only lead him straight into gray areas, where he could never get a full sense of meaning and satisfaction. These gray areas, upon close inspection, prove only to be facetious, unimportant, meaningless, and a lie. In short, Shlomo walked right into a trap of hevel; because he was looking in the wrong places and in the wrong ways, he had no possibility of reaching a conclusion other than "hakol hevel." If Shlomo had only realized this, and had instead looked to find meaning in true, fulfilling areas, and had he done so in ways that our traditions and beliefs praise, accept, and encourage, then he would have probably come to a very different conclusion. Perhaps, instead of believing that everything is hevel-worthless, purposeless, fleeting, and  lacking meaning and truth, Shlomo may have been able to realize that not only does life have meaning, but it can easily be found in any assortment of areas, you just have to know what you're looking for and where to look.