The Gluttony of the Middle Class and the Meh Wants

When you can afford to buy all the little things you want so you do, but you don't think of the big picture or long term so wealth growth and asset growth stagnates. 

When you no longer have the discipline or desire to save that want for later, because you can service it now, so why not.

The difference between the middle and the top, is that the top get rid of liabilities fast, stack assets and leave the wants - especially the meh wants for last. 

There's a difference between meh wants and real wants. 

The ancillary wants of things that are nice to do, nice to have, nice to experience, but they don't truly fulfill you. They're a placeholder. Because you haven't really delved deeper to explore what you really want and need to be fulfilled. It's often a symptom of avoiding ourselves - avoiding loving ourselves, avoiding seeing ourselves, avoiding nourishing ourselves. It's a way that we can socially acceptably neglect ourselves. Cos it still looks like we're “doing the things” on the outside. 

But we're not. 

Because they're not our things. 

They're not the things that serve our soul, light our heart on fire. 

And we get stuck in this stagnant dam of collection of stuff, and experiences and even friends that are so meh. So unserving of what we truely need. 

And then we question. Why am I so dissatisfied with a “good” life? Why don't I feel happy? Or fulfilled? Or inspired? Why do I feel stuck? 

Because when you plant in a place of stagnation instead of inspiration, there's only room for stunted growth. 

But when we look at ourselves. Actually look, and look to see. Look at the neglected, the dismissed, the unwelcome facets of who we truely are, and work to uncover the layers hiding us from the truth, and the truth from us, we can begin to see, the sly betrayal that we have imposed upon ourselves. 

Both on a macro and a micro scale. 

We can see what we didn't meet, out of fear of pain. 

But we can also begin to flow again. 

We excavate that which is just rubble, clear out from the path of our spring of life. And slowly, but surely, with practice and consistency, we can recalibrate our knowledge of ourselves. We can serve ourselves, not just with meh wants, but deeply. Only we can truly fulfill ourselves. So we might as well

try.