The curse of the unlikely dreams - is it worth?

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While I am suffering from the curse less likely, I wonder if this extraordinary search is really worth the time, money and the effort

The topic of dream jobs recently came up at a meeting with a friend. I mentioned the latest job advertisement in the New York Times for a journalist who traveled around the world for a year and would report on the travel destinations in her annual feature "52 Places to Go".

"But don't you do that?" She asked. "Don't you have a dream job?"

In many ways she is right. Kia and I travel around the world professionally. We are paid to do what we love: to explore nature. Admittedly, we lack many of the normal things in life-a home, a fixed income, comfort-but we are happy and can do things that many only dream of: real Bucket-List experiences.

Nevertheless, there are many unfulfilled dreams on my bucket list. My list is in a permanent state of metamorphosis - often elements are added and removed - but there are some that remain without exception, above all: the ascent of the seven peaks, the highest mountain of all continents.

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The ubiquitous points on my Bucket List

Climb the seven peaks (four to go down, three to go) Sail through the Atlantic Live in a strange country Visit 100 countries (previously 85) Write a book hike the arctic trail in Grönland

For a boy from the land from the flat part of Great Britain, it is probably an unlikely performance to climb four of the seven peaks - the Elbrus in Europe, the Kilimanjaro in Africa, the Aconcagua in South America and the Kosciuszko in Australia. Should I continue this unrealistic search at all? Is it really worth the time, the money and the effort? If I were a betting man, I would bet against myself.

But although I will certainly suffer from the curse less likely dreams, there is a core of hope that I will reach this goal one day. Even if I only climbed one or two more of the seven, I would feel more fulfilled if I knew that I was as close as I could. After all, I would rather have dreams that I will not be realized than to have none at all.

I know it is clichéd, but maybe the old aphorism is really true: "Shoot the moon. Even if you go wrong, you can land between the stars."

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