The best you can do for yourself is to love your family, stay healthy and make a lot of money.
The best you can do for others is to spend the very same money.
Spend them on luxury.
Spend them on fun.
Spend them on traveling.
Or better yet, invest them in other peoples dreams so that someone else can love their family, stay healthy and make a lot of money too.
Just, please, don’t leave them in the bank where they will do no good.
Favourite quote from the Jack Black-movie Nacho Libre: “I am the gatekeeper of my own destiny.”
Corny, but true.
Second favourite quote is Jack singing:
“I ate some bugs, I ate some grass, I used my hand, to wipe my tears.”
Some words I heard at the latest Bloggforum has stuck with me. A man was asked about the favourite books he owned. He answered saying that he prefers to live light, with basically nothing more than a suitcase. Being able to move without the hassle of bringing all his possessions was more important than collecting books.
So true.
Freedom is not being able to buy whatever you want.
Freedom is being able to do whatever you want.
In fact, the more you own, the less free you are. Possessions are inertia.
Live light. Be free.
Don’t value a person based on how smart she is.
Don’t value a person based on how good she looks.
Don’t value a person based on how much money she has.
Value a person based on the positive change she makes.
It’s a resting place. It’s a table. It’s a trashcan. The floor of the city.
How is a marketplace created? What does it take for two people to start a conversation about buying or selling an object? (Markets are conversations, right?) Blankets on the ground? Objects on the blankets? Price tags?
Do we change our state of mind when we enter a marketplace?
The picture is from a flea market for children last summer. The market opened in the morning and closed late in the after noon.
