“The best” isn’t necessarily a product or thing. It’s the reward for winning the battle fought between patience, obsession, and desire.

It takes an unreasonably long amount of time to find the best of something. It requires that you know everything about a product’s market, manufacture, and design, and that you can navigate deceptive pricing and marketing. It requires that you find the best thing for yourself, which means you need to know what actually matters to you.

If you’re an unreasonable person, trust me: the time it takes to find the best of something is completely worth it. It’s better to have a few fantastic things designed for you than to have many untrustworthy things poorly designed to please everyone. The result–being able to blindly trust the things you own–is intensely liberating.

– http://dcurt.is/the-best

// Mind you, this path can be blindingly expensive if you choose to purchase your way to happiness. The artisan route doesn’t accept American Express, but the daily deposits into your soul’s reserves of satisfaction, is priceless.