Late one night, Elon Musk posted that money can’t buy happiness. And really — money only needs to be enough. What matters far more is our relationships with other people, and with ourselves: warm, harmonious, steady. The Creator must have found a way to make sure that people at every level of wealth get an equal share of life’s happiness. So when it comes to pursuing happiness, we are all equal — we just go about it differently.
You truly possess a thing only while you don’t yet have it. Before you own the big house, your fantasy of it is flawless — in your mind, it serves every need perfectly. But once the house is actually yours, give it a little time and, oddly enough, it stops meaning anything to you at all.
Distance creates beauty; not possessing is the truest form of having. What is a dream, anyway? A dream is something I haven’t yet achieved — that is what stirs the blood, not what I’ve already done. And yet the things I have done, the things I do own, the people at my side — those deserve to be cherished all the more. The unchanging rhythm of ordinary days is, in the end, the heart’s final anchor, because in the end none of us will change anymore: we will all slip into an endless sleep — the one medicine calls death.
Cherish the present, live each day well, and give thanks for everything I have — and everything I don’t.
