The mantra is drilled into our heads as children.
"Follow your dreams.
Be who you want to be."
We either fall into apathy for lack of ambition or have ambition in abundance. We fight for our dreams, we seize them, we grab them, we gain the world and a little more.
We are miserable.
We have reached the top and we are lonely because the paradigm that tells us that following our dreams is the goal does not tell us that it does not guarantee joy.
Love. Sacrifice. Relationship.
This must be our paradigm, or when we achieve the goal of greatness we will despair because our hearts were made for more.