“I desire a life that makes me desire to live; a life with purpose and the right balance of satisfaction and dissatisfaction, so that I love what I have but still have something to work for.”
by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe — from The Vision, chapter 74
In other words
A good life is not only one that can be continued. It contains reasons for wanting to continue it: purpose, freedom, hope, and work that feels worth doing.
Complete satisfaction could leave nothing to reach toward, while constant dissatisfaction would make the present impossible to love. A living balance holds appreciation and desire together. There is enough goodness to value now and enough unfinished possibility to welcome tomorrow.
This desire cannot be supplied by money alone. Comfort may protect it, but meaning also grows from knowing oneself and being free to act and speak as that self. A rich life is one whose owner does not merely possess it, but wants to wake and enter it again.
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