“The pleasure we find in thinking about the future comes not from imagining achieving our goals, but from the secret hope that we will somehow no longer be ourselves when we get there.”
— Alain de Botton
Simplified Meaning:
Thinking about the future makes us feel good not because we see ourselves reaching our dreams, but because we secretly hope we will become different, better people by then.
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