Some fulfill their dreams and realize the journey was a learning experience. The planning, the twist and turns that life presented as the navigation to the goal you set for yourself is now realized. Through it all, the realization is that, now the task at hand is how do you keep the dream going? How do you hold on to what you spent a better half of your life chasing? Now the end is the start of the beginning in the chapter of your life. You have arrived to see that your life doesn't stop because you've reached your dream. You have to continue on, with questions. I've worked to retirement, will I have enough to go on? Who will take care of me when I can't? Start getting serious about your life after you gotten to the dream that you spent your life pursing.