Perhaps you’ve had this experience. You’ve set yourself some major goal and focused all your energy on achieving it. Then you do! Hurray! You got accepted to your school of choice! You got the job! Then you look around and all you see are the new challenges facing you. It’s like, I don’t know, like escaping from Egypt by the mighty hand and outstretched arm of the Lord, walking on dry ground through the middle of a sea, seeing your pursuers utterly routed, singing joyously to God in thanks for your salvation, then looking around you. “Oh, we’re kind of in a desert, aren’t we? Um, can I have a drink of water?”
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