Is That All There Is?

This conversation made me think of that classic Peggy Lee song, Is That All There Is? If you're not familiar, it's a melancholy ballad about the expectations we build up for the future and then the letdown that we sometimes feel when we finally arrive at that future. How we unconsciously metabolize our achievements while we're still on the journey. Not the outcome, but the dance. And if you're going to be putting in all of that effort day after day, you might as well enjoy the dance. Making things that matter takes a long time.