There is abundance in scarcity

It recently hit me that scarcity doesn’t actually feel like scarcity. Rather it teaches me what abundance means. There is abundance in little things. The more you have of something, the less value you attach to it.

I’ll give you an example to understand this-

You belong to a rich family where the cook asks you everyday what should be made for dinner and you answer with the best that comes to your mind.

Now, imagine being a part of family in which it is only once a week (mostly on weekends) that your mum cooks something special for the whole family.

The above 2 cases are very different from each other. The first one is abundance, as good food is available whenever you want it. While there is a certain limitation in the second case as you can’t have good food as and when you wish to but you’ve to wait for the weekend.

The first case won’t teach you what good food means as that food (which would be a treat for an average family) is what you are having everyday. This can be problematic when you go to a place where there is normal food on offer. Now this normal food will feel like something really inferior to you.

While the second case teaches you to value food. It teaches you that it is only once a while that you’ll get good things. It teaches you to have patience until the good time arrives. More than anything else , it makes you feel the abundance in scarcity.

There is less of abundance in abundance itself than it is in scarcity.

-ChoubeySahab