Cancer

The money question that keeps returning is not really about the amount you think it is about. It arrives wearing the clothes of a budget problem or a timing problem, but what it actually wants to know is whether you believe you deserve the life those numbers would buy. You keep doing the math again because the math is not the real question. The real question lives in the space between what you could afford and what you let yourself want, and it has been traveling with you much longer than this week's spreadsheet. Every time you revisit the numbers, you are asking the same thing in a different voice.