Nobody remembers the price of the hoodie. Everyone remembers the night they laughed so hard they couldn’t breathe.
GRATITUDE
WHAT THIS MEANS
The things that cost money and the things that stay with you are rarely the same items. A purchase takes up attention beforehand and almost none afterwards, while an evening nobody planned keeps coming back for years. Money spent on objects buys a short run of pleasure. Time spent with people tends to buy something that keeps paying out.
Look at what you are saving up for and ask what it will be worth to you in two years. Then put some of that toward a night with the people who make you laugh like that. You will not remember what it cost, which is rather the point.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Which night still makes you laugh when you remember it?
MORE IN GRATITUDE & PRESENCE
- There’s a tired that comes from a wasted day and a tired that comes from a great one. Chase the second kind.
- The face in the mirror carried you through every good moment you’ve ever had. Go easier on it.
- That summer job with the sunburn and the sticky counters will become a story you tell for twenty years.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.