But each promotion, each achievement, each new purchase moved me one step further from the truth. I wish I would have known that buying a luxury vehicle wasn’t going to make me a better person. I wish I would have questioned what was essential instead of letting outside expectations dictate how I spent my time, money, and attention. I wish I would have realized that alone in an empty room, each of us is already a whole person, and the role of everything else is only to augment, enhance, or amplify our lives, not get in the way.
