You’ve just had a good evening. And somehow on the way home, the conversation turns to the restaurant you didn’t try, the thing you almost bought, the better option you missed.
What could have been instead of what was.
It’s such a human thing to do. And it quietly ruins what was actually a perfectly good experience.
Most of us do this with our whole lives, too. Satisfaction and contentment are elusive. When I get the promotion. When things settle down. When life looks a little different from how it looks today.
But if you can’t find it here, in this moment, with what you already have, the odds are you won’t find it there either.
There is more to be satisfied about in an ordinary day than most of us ever stop to notice.
The art of living is learning to extract it.