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I found a journal entry from 2015 where I wrote, in all earnestness, that my life would be complete if I could just work from home and not have a boss. I now work from home and have no boss. I do not feel complete. Instead, I feel like my life would be complete if I could just hit a certain income number, or finish a certain project, or reach some other milestone that, I'm quite confident, will also fail to complete me when I get there. This pattern is so consistent that it would be funny if it weren't also a little tragic. The thing I desperately wanted three years ago is the thing I now take completely for granted. The freedom that once seemed like the entire point has become the invisible backdrop against which I construct new dissatisfactions. I have what past-me would have killed for, and I barely notice it. The hedonic treadmill is well-documented in psychology: we adapt to positive changes and return to a baseline level of happiness. But I don't think the real problem is adaptation. The real problem is that we forget to update our goals. We achieve the thing, then immediately start wanting the next thing, without ever pausing to acknowledge that the previous thing happened. We're still running toward a finish line we crossed years ago.