Get off this endless merry-go-round

If you want to get off this endless merry-go-round, you’ve got to want less.

The way I see it, we’re being forced to do that anyway with rising costs in nearly every intersection of our lives.

But when you want less, the terror, panic, and humiliation of not being able to keep up with the rising tide will subside. You’ll regain full control over your senses. You’ll be able to maintain your composure and make tactical decisions about your future. What you need to do to get where you’re going won’t be rife with heartbreak and regret at what you hadn’t accomplished so many years before in your life.

In short, you’ll be the smartest version of you.

It’s not to say that you shouldn’t dream your biggest dream. Please - whatever you do - dream it in detail. It’s only through the absolute ridiculous notion of getting everything you can possibly want that you actually have a chance of obtaining it.

Wanting less is about loving more. Yourself, your life, your challenges, and your opportunities.

When you love everything about your life exactly as it is, you have the capacity to appreciate the existence you’re experiencing in *this* moment. It’s in these moments, when you feel absolutely lost to how you might be triumphant at the end, that your courage is forged. And the courage to keep moving, even when it looks like all hope is lost, is the thing that gets you there in the end.

You’ll find that your life has more meaning from the everyday privilege of your experiences that the want of things - more things, bigger and better and nicer things - are laughable consolations to the deep satisfaction that rests in your eternal soul.

Life has so much more depth than the shallow game you’re playing right now. The grass is greener, yes! And so many different shades of it indeed, when you get off that hamster wheel.