Chasing what you don’t have is exhausting. Try falling for what’s already in your room.

Wanting is open-ended, which is exactly what makes it tiring. There is no point at which the list of things you do not have runs out, so the pursuit has no natural stopping place and every acquisition resets it. Attention turned toward what is already here has an ending, because a room is finite and you can get to the bottom of it.

Spend twenty minutes looking at what you own as though it were new: the books, the things people gave you, the stuff you stopped seeing years ago. It is a strange exercise, and it reliably shortens the list of what you are missing.