Meaningful Returns

I had a lunch date with my wife today, and I was reminded of just how incredibly profound contentment is. Contentment is one of the most difficult concepts in the entire world for rich people like me to grasp, because it’s the least obvious and most backwards path to walk down when all of the things masquerading as important are screaming for attention like a bad car commercial.

But sometimes, and generally only when you find a quiet space like a lunch date with your favorite person (or people), and only when you remove all of the voluntary distractions you submit yourself to, sometimes you have a moment where you start seeing for the first time again. And when that moment hits, the only words that matter are these:

I need nothing more.

When we have moments like these we know we’re breaking the system. We’re becoming more and more of our true selves and less and less of the craven consumers we’re expected to be. We understand that to define our wealth in dollar terms only is to miss the greatest adventure and responsibility of life, which is to care for and love the people around us until it hurts.