I'm a fairly ambitious person, and I've been fortunate enough to be able to achieve a reasonable amount of my goals thus far. The thing is I've noticed that very few of my dreams have turned out to be as good as I had visualized them to be when I was working towards them. My marriage is one major exception to this, as it has turned out far better than I had originally thought.
So what about you folks? Have your dreams turned out to be disillusioning once achieved?
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Too often, which led me to the brilliant idea of not EVER building anything up with expectations -- which manages to drain all the fun out of anticipating something. So there's no way to win, it seems.
Feh.
I agree, things always look shiner from a distance.
Yes and no. When I think of how much I had to "stick to it" to reach a goal, I do feel happy about it. However, I now have my Ph.D. and, well, I just don't feel nearly as "smart" as I thought I would feel!
I totally agree with you about marriage -- and kids, too.
I dreamed of having perfect kids, daughters and sons. I tried six times and just can't seem to get the perfect daughter but I only needed to try one time for the perfect son! Dad
the more you want something (and dream about it) the more you'll enjoy it
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