Small dreams
Sep 2, 2018 · 1 min read
People frequently say we should dream big. But what about the virtues of dreaming small? What about the virtues of being satisfied?
In one Calvin and Hobbes strip (a great strip! Go buy the books if you don’t have them already), there is a conversation between Calvin and Hobbes in which Calvin asks Hobbes what he would wish for if he could have anything in the world. Hobbes says he would wish for a sandwich. Calvin derides that and says he would wish for “a trillion billion dollars, my own space shuttle and a private continent”. In the next panel they are in the kitchen eating and Hobbes says “I got my…

