Are you saying it’s sad that a person is never able to rest on their laurels, since there’s always another hurdle to leap over?
If so, I don’t agree with this. I don’t agree that people are never able to rest on their laurels. The world is full of people who are coasting along in life, unconcerned with bettering themselves, setting goals, or planting flags. And they seem pretty content about their contentment.
I also don’t agree that constantly bettering yourself, setting goals, and planting flags is sad. It’s a good way to past time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s line "Life is a journey, not a destination” was no doubt the inspiration for this poem that is sometimes part of Jewish funeral services and a supplemental reading at Yom Kippur:
So uh yeah.
Or to bastardize from another Jewish philosopher, Woody Allen, Life is a shark - when you stop moving forward you die. You don’t want new challenges then what you got is a dead shark.