Lose one thing and you’ll count it all day. Try counting what you still have for a minute.

Attention has a bias toward absence. One missing thing can occupy a whole day while a hundred intact things sit there unnoticed, because your mind is built to flag what changed and ignore what held. That is useful for spotting danger and terrible for judging how your life is going. The ledger you walk around with is accurate about the gap and silent about everything else.

Spend sixty seconds tonight listing what is still here. Not as a performance of gratitude, just an audit. A roof, a working knee, somebody who texts back.