If you’ve ever played a video game, you know that often there are “levels” to beat – and once you’ve done that, you’ve done it. Sure, you can play a favorite level again and again, but each time will be a little less exciting, a little less challenging. Thrill may eventually give way to nostalgia, but you’ll never get what you got the first time.
That’s not a knock against the design of the game! The level can have been wonderful, but once you’ve beaten it… you’ve beaten it. You’ve overcome the challenge, gotten the prize, gathered the story.
Keep that in mind in your life. Sometimes you feel like you want to move on from something, but this thought confuses you, because you can’t think of anything wrong with that thing. There doesn’t have to be. You simply might have gotten everything you’re going to get out of that level and it’s time to move onto the next.
The Opportunity Machine 