I am a husband, writer, and teacher exploring what it means to cultivate mental silence.

Needs and wants...

Needs and wants...I've written about this before. Do I need an iPad Pro? No. I own an iPad Air 2...it's barely a year old. I own a 2015 MacBook Pro. That's more computing power than most people will own in a lifetime. Why isn't it enough? I wrote a draft of a book with the iPad Air 2. I'm typing this blog post on my iPad Air 2. Why isn't that enough? Why do I continue to lust over the iPad Pro? Is it because most of the guys whose podcasts I listen to are using them? Maybe. Would my life be measurably better if I got the iPad Pro? Most likely...no. Yet I torture myself each time I go by the Apple Store. I go in...look at the iPad Pro...type on the keyboard, mess around with the pencil...then I leave the store hating myself for doing it...yet again. Why can't I be satisfied with what I have?

When the mind wants what the body cannot yet have...