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It represents an idea. The thing we cling on. The very thing that makes people excited. More often than not, if "most of the time" is too much, people fell in love with an "idea" more than actual execution. You are excited about the month-long trip you have been planning for a year. You imagine how wonderful it would be to quit something you've been stuck on and be free, free to roam the world, free to do whatever you want, whenever you want. You fell in love with the idea of being in love more than the person. You keep buying books you think you will read sometime in the future and let it gather dust. You never throw your old stuff, thinking it might come useful still somehow. We cling to our ideas. Ideas become our goals, our measurement for achievement. We become attached to it. So attached, in other words, we came to have such a high expectation that when we are actually "living" our ideas or achieve what we set out to do, it does not taste as sweet as when you stumbled upon it.

Ideas. Without them we have no hope, with them we are miserable. Sound familiar?