Enjoying What You Have
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not;
but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for"
-Epicurus, Greek Philosopher (341 BC - 270 BC)
I was thinking about this quote while I was down starting a few seeds this morning. For a few years I didn't even have a seed table and my flats of seedlings were scattered about the house in front of windows and under a few lights here and there. Then my mom gave me her old light table when she got a new on. She purchased it at a yard sale for $25 many years ago. I've upgraded two of the lights as the old ones quit working, but other than that's it's been free and it works. I still don't have enough space for all my plants, but I make it work by supplementing it with a few lights hanging from the basement ceiling.
The other day I was pining over this beautiful 16 tray light table at Johnny's Selected Seeds, thinking about how nice and how much more convenient it would be than my mix of lights here and there and the old light table. It would be so much easier I kept telling myself. Then I realized that what I have now was much better than what I had a few years ago and that I was letting my desire for something better spoil what I have.
Have you ever found your desire for something new stealing the joy away from something you already have?