We may know on some level there’s no peak of the mountain we will reach when our lives are complete, but sometimes we orientate our lives toward the illusion anyway. Throughout our days, we might tell ourselves that life will be better when we get that promotion, leave our job, lose weight, finish this project, win that award—when we finally arrive. But the truth is that we never arrive. Not when we get that job, complete that project, find a partner, move into that house, make more money. Because even when we do achieve such things, we are always looking to the next thing, or lamenting the
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