As soon as I set a goal, some invisible force arrives to confront, block, defeat, or make me forget it. Why?

Fantasies

Are goals anything other than fantasies? Dreams? Someday, maybe wishes? Unrealistic naïve dreams?

I’m not sure. Everything everyone does—every choice, action, or deed seems to be based on a dream, fantasy, or imaginary vision of something desired or ingrained as right or wrong as imprinted by our upbringing and exposure to thought, value, and perceived reality.