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🌱 Water outage and nice things
A water outage. Eckhart Tolle quote. A simple reminder.
Mitchell Cohen
October 26, 2025
Hola from Puerto Rico. 🇵🇷
Here’s your 3 insights in 3 minutes.
đźš° Water
A pipe burst in Puerto Rico this week.
Most of the island’s been without water for days (including many people in the wedding we’re here for).
Luckily, our place had a backup water tank so we’ve had water.
It’s funny just imagining not having something we currently have (water), makes you instantly more grateful for it.
Yet most of the time, we do the opposite.
We imagine what we don’t have.
The next job, the bigger house, the next milestone.
It’s natural to compare ourselves, but next time I catch myself doing it, I’ll just be like “Oh yeah, well I HAVE WATER!”
📦 Our Things
Eckhard Tolle highlights how we attach to things from a young age.
“One of the most basic levels of identification is with things: My toy later becomes my car, my house, my clothes, and so on. I try to find myself in things but never quite make it and end up losing myself in them. That is the fate of the ego.”
But of course the goal isn’t to just have “nice things.” What we really want is the FEELINGS we think nice things will bring us. (Ex: joy, freedom, pride, etc.)
The craziest part?
We can have nice feelings right now. (Read below)
🤔 In 20 Years
One way to appreciate what we have is to imagine what we’ll miss…
This is wild to think about.
“20 years from now, you’d give anything to be this exact age, exactly this healthy, in this exact moment. Take a second to enjoy it.”
*stretches legs and appreciates arthritis-free knees*
Dang. Sit with that quote for a second.
Salud,
Mitchell
Ps. Whatup gang
Salud,
Mitchell