A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Most comparison runs outward, toward what other people have, and it never ends well because there is always more of it. There is a quieter measure available: the distance between what you have and what you actually want. For most people that distance is already positive, and has been for a while, without ever being noticed.

Try counting once, plainly. Name three things you have now that you would have been glad to be promised a few years ago. Notice whether wanting more of them was ever the point, or whether having them was.