This is one of those
motivational type stories I heard on the
radio years ago and thought it’d make a good
node.
Let's say that you have a
bank account which, don’t worry how, gets an $86,400
deposit every day. The money is yours to do
anything with, however:
- At midnight the balance is reset to $86,400. If the balance is $85,000 at 12:00am, it will mystically become $86,400 again.
- You cannot save money from the account. Any unspent money is gone.
What would you do with it? Stop and
think about it for a moment.
Most everyone on the show said they’d try to
spend the whole account everyday. If they couldn’t
blow it all on themselves, they’d spend the rest on the
needy or people they care about.
That's nice.
So here’s the
twist: There are 86,400
seconds in a day. You cannot save them, and when they pass they are gone
forever. How well are you spending them?
The end. I thought the
comparison between
money and
time was interesting, I don’t know many people who try to spend every last second to the best that they can. I sure know I can't (or just don't). It was also neat how the folks on the radio could
instantly come up with ways to
spend money but not time.
And on that note, I think I’ll go draw for a while.