The best address in the world means little if you spend every evening wanting to be somewhere else.
GRATITUDE
WHAT THIS MEANS
Where you live matters far less than whether you want to be there in the evening. A desirable address that you spend every night wishing you could leave is an expensive way to be unhappy, and the desirability makes it harder to admit, since everyone around you assumes you have got what you wanted.
Pay attention to how you feel about going home at the end of a day. That reaction, repeated over months, is the honest verdict. It outranks any external assessment of the place.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Where does your mind go during your evenings at home?
MORE IN GRATITUDE & PRESENCE
- Go through old photos from five years ago. You’ll see a lot of stuff you had and never noticed having.
- Gratitude doesn’t change the picture. It adjusts the focus so you stop only seeing the blur.
- That apple crossed state lines, maybe oceans, and passed through a dozen hands to land in your backpack.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.