Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

You remember exactly what you wanted and only vaguely what you got. Wanting keeps a careful ledger, because it needs the picture of the thing to keep pulling you forward. Having writes almost nothing down, since once something arrives it stops being remarkable. That is how a full life can still feel thin.

Try naming three things you once badly wanted and now simply have. Say them plainly, without adding what is still missing. Doing it on purpose is the only way that second ledger ever gets written.