wanting less isn't deprivation. it's the end of being advertised to in your own head

Wanting less isn't deprivation. It's the end of being advertised to inside your own head.

The ad used to keep playing long after I closed the app. That was the part nobody mentions.

It ran as a quiet list of everything I didn't have yet. Always updating. Never finished.

Quiet is what's left when that stops. It isn't emptiness. It's just the noise being gone.