Whenever we find ourselves longing for something different than what we already have, this is the play of ego. It creates self-talk like “I won’t be happy until this happens, or this circumstance must change.” It judges the current situation, calling it “bad” or “not good enough,” and then comes up with an alternative it considers better, but it has no idea whether the alternative really would be better or is even possible. I cannot count how many times clients have told me