I found this to be very true for me, in a different context. Last spring I quit my job to take a six month road trip visiting as many national parks as I could. It had been a dream of mine for several years, and I loved it.
What I found, though, was that I no longer had any goals I was working towards. I was living my dream, and loving it, but without something to plan for and strive towards, my imagination and planning abilities became detached from my surroundings, and my daydreams and long-term goals became more and more baroque, until I had an entire dream-universe in my head. It made me realize that humananity, or at least I, need to have something they're working towards, a goal of some sort.
What I found, though, was that I no longer had any goals I was working towards. I was living my dream, and loving it, but without something to plan for and strive towards, my imagination and planning abilities became detached from my surroundings, and my daydreams and long-term goals became more and more baroque, until I had an entire dream-universe in my head. It made me realize that humananity, or at least I, need to have something they're working towards, a goal of some sort.