Nothing is as good as it seems beforehand. When we have gained our object, or reached the point when we can enjoy something we have been looking forward to very much, more often than not it turns out to be a disappointment. ‘To travel hopefully,’ wrote Robert Louis Stevenson, ‘is better than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.’
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