Debt

Instead of buying a house, I think it would be a far more rewarding experience spending the same amount of money on THIS. Sure, you might say that it provides no returns. But you'd be wrong!! Judging success with assets was a small glitch in our history. It'd be nice to have one provided it caused me no significant stress like so many of my contemporaries who have somehow bought in on the idea that a primary goal of humanity is to 'own' a piece of land, regardless of the overall real and opportunity costs. But that is a rant I'll save for another day.

On the original topic. I already have the soundtrack selected for the moment I see the sun coming up over the earth. Sure, it's cheesy. That's the kinda guy I am. But it captures my imagination. It's a convergence of the past and the future and of fiction and it's realisation. Star Wars may be realisable, but you're an idiot for hoping so (as much for wishing for an intergalactic empire as it's demise at the hands of pathetic upstart).

There have been a few moments in my life where, as I approach and enter them, I have felt a convergence of the desires that made it happen with what I did to get there. Not an expression of the end overriding the means, but of that moment compressing time, energy and experiences, giving it gravity. And it sticks with you. And it is seeps into everything you do from that point on.