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A person without goals is like a sled without a hill. The sled can be pushed around on the snow in the yard with minimal enjoyment, or it can be dragged up a hill and let zoom down the other side with more enjoyment. In a similar fashion, a person can go through life without ever taking a risk or encountering a difficulty and be relatively happy. By taking a few calculated risks, one can climb hills of difficulty and experience true joy as they whiz by and collect the fruits of their labors. Life is a game that is meant to be played to the fullest. Only by setting goals, however possible or impossible, and striving toward their completion will one ever have the slightest chance of winning the ultimate prize—inner bliss. Impossible goals are not set to be completed, but instead are a pathway on which one may find new [possible] goals. When one aims toward an impossible goal, such as a dream, they will forever be driven to complete it, despite its inability to be fulfilled; never-ending quests to do the impossible motivate people to do and understand a multitude of things ranging from landing a man on the moon to creating a totally artificial sentient being. Without goals, life would be bland. Without goals, the world would never change. Without goals, minds would be wasted like wine down a drain. Without goals, dreams would be dreams and reality would be reality. Without the interplay between the dream world and the real world, what would we be?