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The kind of luxury I want more of

Valon Asani · · 2 min read

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The real luxuries in life, for me, include peace, people I love and time I can call my own.

In this short caption, I call peace, health, people you love and time for yourself the real luxuries. Everything else, I say, is noise.

It is a statement about what matters to me. It is not a claim that money never matters or that everybody can choose away the demands of their life. The question underneath it is simple: when you imagine a good life, what are you actually making room for?

Make room for the real luxuries in life

Some things are easy to show in a photograph. Others are harder to put on display: an unhurried conversation, a quiet evening, time that does not already belong to the next obligation.

Think of a recent moment you wanted to last longer. What made it valuable? Who was there, how were you spending the time, and what was absent? You may find a more useful description of enough there than in a list of things to acquire.

Give one priority a place this week

Choose one part of that definition you can make a little room for. Arrange a conversation with someone you care about. Leave a small space in the week unfilled. Put a boundary around time you want to keep for yourself, where your responsibilities allow it.

None of that makes the rest of life disappear. It is a way to let a stated priority influence an ordinary decision. The caption is short because the reminder is short: pay attention to the parts of life you would miss most, even when they are not the easiest parts to show.

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