Why are we born? Just to die someday? No. we have some tasks. We have to fulfill our dreams and achieve our ideals. Generally our lives are too short to complete all our tasks.
Dreams and ideals are rungs of the life-ladder. After we have climbed one rung, we look up to the next and try to achieve it. But what will you do after reaching the topmost rung. Maybe celebrate your achievements, but for how long? Life becomes dull and monotonous.
On the other hand life is much more exciting when there are many rungs above. Those rungs encourage you and provoke you to climbing higher. Your dreams supply you with vital energy and enthusiasm. You set your ideal and put in all your effort to succeed. A few failures, a few broken dreams create variation and goad you to put in greater effort. After all, the pleasure of success is best felt when it is preceded by failure.
Coming back to the point- suppose you are on the topmost rung, you have no more rungs to climb; you have no more ideals or dreams to pursue. All excitement and thrill are lost. Life will stagnate. There will be no progress.
Moreover you will not be able to fulfill all your dreams and achieve all your ideals in the few decades of your life. By the time you reach the topmost rung, you will be fairly old. You will be bored with the same sights that you had been experiencing since you were born – the same sunrise, the same cycle of seasons, the same festivals – everything will be dreadfully alike and dreary. Your soul will no longer be tenacious of your body, and would want to escape.
I would like you to perform an experiment. Try to sit idle for two days at a stretch. No work to do for forty-eight hours. Sounds great, but actually it is not. Then you will have a faint idea about what you are going to feel if all your ideals are achieved.
So my advice is keep dreaming, keep setting high ideals; there are no restrictions in dreaming. Create more rungs of the ladder. Do not let them come to an end (remember Alexander, the great, and contemporary Steve Jobs). Keep climbing, keep achieving! The heavens are too high and life too short
