Henry David Thoreau...
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."
Interesting thought. Is that socialist, capitalistic, or something else entirely?
Anyway (you slice it) Walden Pond is way overpriced.
Interesting thought. Is that socialist, capitalistic, or something else entirely?
Anyway (you slice it) Walden Pond is way overpriced.
posted by Brett at 10:56 AM
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Very overpriced. Haha. It's pretty deep though...though I'm not sure WHAT that is...because a lot of things we pour our heart and soul ("life") into are going to yield great rewards and vivace and whathaveya in return. Some stuff we do it for though and get worked up for and...kaput (applying for a job we don't get, whatever). And as followers of Christ, people don't have to pay their lives to be saved at the expense of His life..., so the GREATEST thing we'd ever have to pay for in terms of 'life-worthiness' we don't even have to do anyway...
but Thoreau's thing is probably still much more different - the cost of how much we want something is how much we're willing to put in? I'm not sure I agree that everything is that balanced evenly or worth that...good or bad ventures.
Still Carpe Diem and Dead Poets Society and all that: "I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately; I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life - to put to rout all that was not life, and not when I had come to die, discovered that I had not lived."
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