A baseline

When you get an oil change and learn your brakes are below a safe minimum.

When you have a doctor check a cough and they find something more serious.

When a home inspector discovers a structural issue.

Our first response might be: I wish I hadn’t asked.

Ignorance is bliss —
but lasting bliss is an illusion.

So the goal isn’t more bliss.
It’s something steadier.

Not delight that disappears at the first disruption,
but a way of being that can hold it all.