Attraction.

The thing about having it all is that you already do. Most of what you still seek is noise, or it's incremental. As Alan Watts observed, we spend our lives preparing to live, never noticing we're alive right now. What are you waiting for?

There is no reason to deflect, to say "when X happens, then Y." There is no X. It just keeps moving. Marcus Aurelius reminded himself, "Confine yourself to the present. The goal is not preparation. The goal is here." Not tomorrow's present. This one.

If you live your whole life planning for Y, you'll never get there. Because also, there is no Y. It also keeps moving. That's how attraction works- the object of desire perpetually recedes, keeping you in pursuit rather than possession.

In this American life, the function is:

f(x) = y

where x = now to i,

where i is some indefinite time in the future, and

y = the objective.

But it's dynamic.

y = f(p)

where p is your purpose.

Martin Heidegger saw this clearly: we exist as "thrown" into the present, yet we live inauthentically by projecting ourselves always into future possibilities, treating the present merely as a means to elsewhere.

If p = now, i.e. what you're doing, seeing, saying (or not) at this moment -- then there is no function.

We are simply always-already x = y = p.