Two nights of camping and your regular bed feels like a five-star hotel. Same bed. New eyes.

Two cold nights on the ground does nothing to the mattress and everything to the person on it. Your bed has not changed. Your baseline has, and that is the whole mechanism behind why nothing stays impressive for long: you adjust to anything you have continuously, good or bad, and stop seeing it. Deprivation briefly resets the instrument.

Go without something small on purpose this week. Walk instead of getting a lift, skip the coffee you buy daily, sleep somewhere less comfortable once. Then notice what it feels like to have it back.