OddballGreg - The Price Of Life

Coins. Words. Paper. The irony is that this may be one of the most apt headers I've made, and that's just because the topic has a vague scope.

Life has costs. From the soda you might be drinking right now, to the electricity running your device, to the time you're spending reading these words. Everything has a price. Lets talk about that.

Have you ever taken a moment to consider the price you pay to live? Sure you've sat down and thought, "Darn, Coke is expensive." or some similarly phrased sentence with a different subject. Whatever it may be, you understood that for that item or service, there is a price that you have to pay to enjoy it.

The question is, have you ever considered that such a statement exists for everything in life. No matter what you do, how you do it, or who you do it with, there is a price. Writing this blog post costed me time and energy that I will never get back. Your reading of this post is doing the same. Charity costs effort. Crime costs innocence. The world is in an unending flux of give and take, and the only guarantee is that nothing will stay the same.

As I said in a particularly sage moment with a friend, not wishing to do something that might not have any useful long term rewards is not laziness. It's acceptance of the price of life. That every action bears weight, meaning, and a personal price. That every action bears a toll on our life that will be collected, no matter how. We pay for stability with our freedom. We pay for strength of spirit with our ability to feel for the world. Everything has a price.

To sum it all up, think of your life, those finite 70 years of life expectancy that you might not even get to have, as a wallet full of money. Every moment you spend doing nothing, or every deed, good or otherwise, requires you to pay from that wallet. If you knew that the money in your wallet was the only money you would ever have, what would you spend it on? Similarly, if this short life is the only one you have, how shall you spend it? If you wouldn't pay an exorbitant price for a sub-grade meal, why would you spend a large amount of your life doing something you don't even care about?

The most successful people are those that know how to effectively plan their finances, or at least are careful enough to manage them in a self-rewarding way. So take a moment to consider if what you're spending your life on is truly worth it's price. You might find that it's time... for some change. (I'm sorry.) 

Hopefully, this has made you think about the things you're doing with your life. Perhaps you've realized something that builds upon this whole concept, or simply wish to tell me to stop being so preachy. If so, do be sure to let us know down in the comments below, or via Facebook/Twitter. We here at TCSA love to hear your feedback.. And of course, if you enjoy finding out about awesome stuff on the web and world then do please be sure to like the Official TCSA Facebook page and/or follow us on Twitter using the associated buttons on the bar to the left to get all the latest posts as they're published. Also, do be sure to share posts you enjoyed with your friends as it helps us out a great deal. Regardless of what you do, I thank you for having taken the time to read this post; hope that you have/had an absolutely FANTASTIC day, and I will speak again soon.

Spend your lives well my friends.