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the margin · on presence

Appreciate what you have

Appreciate what you have instead of striving for what you don't. Once you let go of the wanting, that's when things tend to show up.

Appreciate what you have instead of striving for what you don't. It reads like a fridge magnet until you've lived the turn.

The wanting is a posture. As long as you're standing in it, nothing you get is ever quite enough—the finish line just moves again. And strangely, it's when you let go of the wanting, when you're genuinely grateful for what's already in your hands, that things tend to show up.

2 strokes · first noted june 2026 · lives in on presence
see — savor the pockets or they vanish
a thought from the margin · 2 returns · back to the room