There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Wanting something for a long time quietly organizes your life around it. Miss it and you carry the ache of the gap. Reach it and the organizing principle disappears, and you meet the plainer fact that no single thing was ever going to settle you. The disappointment in the second case is stranger, because you are supposed to be finished.

Pick the thing you are currently chasing and picture the week after you have it. Notice what you would still want on that Wednesday morning. Let that quieter answer get some of your attention now, rather than all of it later.