His fate is already known to us.
My ambition in life is to own a giant tortoise. I'll need to have a family for this undertaking, though, because the tortiose would live for about two hundred years. My son would have to continue to looking after him after I'm gone and his son after him and his son after that. And I'll need to have a decent house with some land to look after him. And I can forget about the tortoise showing any affection or enthusiasm like a dog would. He's a reptile and completely indifferent one way or the other.