Seneca wrote to his friend that it is not the person who has too little who is poor, but the one who always wants more. Wealth, he said, is having enough. We pile up wants and call them needs, then feel anxious that we are always short. But test it: how much do you truly need to be warm, fed, and at peace today? Often it is far less than the running list in your head. This is not an argument for going without. It is an invitation to feel the relief of enough, to notice that you are, right now, not actually lacking. The person who knows what is enough carries a quiet security that no amount of getting can buy.

Inspired by the old idea of the value of enough. Written by Ugo Charles.