Dream On

Sometimes you see something or someone that appears to be a prize. You want the prize - whatever, whoever it may be, and you strive to find a way to achieve this thing that has eluded you. Every waking moment of your life becomes filled with the desire to achieve what you want. You make endless plans and go to all efforts to set up ways to get to your goal. All else in your life is set aside or inconvenienced or neglected. You simply have to get what you want at any cost. You become obsessed. All your efforts are bent to the task. You can see your desire almost complete. The real work begins. Everything else is secondary and you become dedicated to what you have waited for all this time. The plan evolves and with superhuman effort, you reel in what you worked for. And like a miracle, you do finally get what you wanted. Everything you planned worked out and now you are successful. The joy is overwhelming.  And for a time, you're sitting on top of the world so to speak. There is that glow of holding the prize in your own hands. The diploma is on the wall, the ring is on the finger, the structure perfectly complete. Time slides on in joy and you look around and see what you have and you love it but for some niggling reason, life isn't quite as exciting as before. Something is missing, just a tiny bit, but there it is, that slight dissatisfaction, however, small. Then you realize one day that anything, once achieved, is at an end: there seems nowhere else to go, no one else to want, nothing more to work toward. And it is only then, you know that it's the "getting there" that charms and not the achievement of a goal in itself. Certainly, there is the memory of what you accomplished but now that you have it, the shine fades. The dream is a reality. But, you think, maybe there is something else, some wider horizon, something more. The search begins to seek what is better than best and off you go again into the dream of another shore to explore, another love to find, another thing to create. And we begin another dream.