Owen Raskovitch

And again, I'll quote or just reference Mr. Money Mustache for this idea here.

But he says, you know, we become accustomed to spending on things and we get this rush of, you know, this really good feel good factor when we spend money on something.

It's like an adrenaline rush.

How good is that?

But it wears off pretty quick.

But what you find is that.

The things that you most value in life, and when you get to this kind of happiness factor, the things you most value in life, they tend to be the things you take for granted.

So once you buy something, you tend to take it for granted after that adrenaline rushes over.

But he uses an example of eyesight.

So he says, imagine, close your eyes and imagine for a moment that you're blind.

It's going to take time before you get back to feeling happy.

But once you do, you'll be content with that.

But chances are for most people listening to this, you can open your eyes and ta-da, you've got your eyesight back and how wonderful it is.

And we don't appreciate something until we really think about it.

Yeah, and it's gone.

Exactly.

Exactly.

And so that's another thing that kind of feeds into this fire movement is once you stop spending on those things, you realize maybe that they're not the important thing.

If you want to, you could, but you don't have to, right?

So it's kind of like just, I guess, appreciating what you already have and spending less time on what you don't have.