If you can't feel it, what's even the point of having it?
You don't see the point of money you can't feel. The best seat, the bottle, the gift that makes someone gasp, the upgrade — that's money doing its actual job. You'd rather have the memory than the cushion, the night than the spreadsheet. It makes you magnetic; everything's bigger when you're paying. But the spend is also a feeling you're chasing, not just a thing you're buying. The high of the splurge is loudest when something underneath is quiet — when 'treat yourself' is doing the work of soothing, proving, or filling. You're not reckless. You just trust the future to sort itself out, because sitting with not-enough-right-now is the discomfort you'll spend almost anything to skip.
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