Transcendent Reality and Potential

If you have an ideal of any sort, how is that not transcendent? It transcends you, that's the first thing. And it doesn't exist in reality. It exists in a place of possibility and we treat places of possibility as if they're eal. To pursue something means you don't already have it. You're probably not pursuing something that's worse than what you already have because why the hell would you pursue it? Right? That's completely counterproductive....