But if you land at a healthy balance or blend of both, then you can basically experience things with a better direction of including gratitude into that moment. Building gratitude requires one to really immerse themselves in some point of time where they do look back in the past to really understand that appreciation in that moment.

I do somewhat agree and see the merit in the fact that suffering & monotony are self induced—no 2 people have the same reality, ever. Because of that, every person's reality is mutually exclusive and therefore kinda rotational?

Like you can go through something and experience the emotions of that something and then with time, someone you meet now or in the future will have that same experience that they experience and potentially with the same emotions. But never at the same time—not saying it's impossible though.

So why is this important to bring up for me? Because it gives me a sense of peace to know that you can appreciate the conviction of trying to get somewhere but also feel okay to feel let down every now and then, when you don't achieve that destination.

There comes a time when everything comes full circle and you fully internalize that destination came easy, hard or it never happened. The velocity of life is technically constant but it's really the emotions behind the experience that make the time warp variably.