An ordinary comfort deserves appreciation while it is available, not only after it becomes rare.

Comfort tends to be noticed on its way out. A back that does not ache, a friend who answers, a chair by a window in the afternoon: these register as background until something removes them, and then they turn out to have been the day’s structure. Waiting for scarcity to teach you the value is expensive, and the lesson arrives too late to enjoy.

You can bring the noticing forward. Once today, name the plain comfort you are inside of while you are still inside it. Not as a discipline, just a moment of looking around before anything changes.