Nothing is missing.

Most people grow up with a quiet assumption: something is missing. More money, more recognition, a better version of themselves. What if completeness was already the starting point?

No sign-up. No email. Nothing to join.

Three ways in

“No goals. No plans. No problems. Just presence.”

Base Assumption — Nothing Is Missing

What a conversation sounds like

YouI reached my goals. Why do I still feel something is missing?

Maverick

Maybe the goals were never the problem. The feeling that something is missing usually arrives before the goal and stays after it, because it was never about the goal. What would change if you stopped treating that feeling as an instruction?

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Book cover: Meet Maverick from Astra Star, The Base Assumption, Nothing Is Missing

Meet Maverick from Astra Star

A journey across a beautiful planet where almost everyone is trying to become someone.

Reader
Why did you come to Earth?
Maverick
To understand why people on such a beautiful planet live as if life begins later.
Reader
What remained?
Maverick
A life to live. Nothing missing to become.
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Medium · Essays Short stories and essays on the Base Assumption in ordinary life, from work and money to relationships and health. Read on Medium