I am already there.

Whatever you are working towards, the version of you who arrives there is this person. Same temperament, same Tuesday afternoons, same habit of checking the phone before getting out of bed.

Which is why arrival is quieter than anyone expects.

People describe a week of it, sometimes only a day, and then it becomes the new floor to stand on and the eye lifts to the next thing.

That is not an argument against wanting things. It is a reason to look properly at the life already running today, because the qualities you are hoping to feel over there are only ever available here.