Ya know you can make a small fortune in this line of work? You start with a large fortune...
Too much these days is being measured by the financial yardstick. How much will it cost? Will it make a profit? And, goodnessgraciousheavenstomurgatroyd (as my daddy would say), be sure there's no debt involved!
Which of course, immediately eliminates lots of things worth doing but do not carry a balanced budget. I'm no expert in finances (that's fer sure!) (get out of my head, Dad!) but I realize that some things can't be evaluated by a balance sheet.
What is the price of a sunset? Give me the cost of love. Tell me the way you can price the good feeling that comes from helping someone in need. How do we figure out the budget on a hug or a kiss?
But we get so caught up in things, which have a clear value attached and which we can measure and weigh and know the worth of the result. This is vending-machine thinking; we put in our money and expect to get concrete answers.
But some questions, as the poet Rainer Maria Rilke put it, don't have answers. We just have to live the questions, he wrote to a young would-be poet. And some things are worthwhile no matter the cost.
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