The Prize
Imagine that you have won the following prize in a contest: each morning the bank deposits $86,400.00 in your private account for your use. However, this prize has rules. 1. Everything that you don't spend in any given day is taken away. 2. You cannot save or transfer the money into some other account. 3. You may only spend it. 4. Each morning, the bank opens your account with another $86,400.00 for that day. 5. The bank can end the game and close the account for good without warning. What would you do? You would buy anything and everything you wanted, right? Not only for yourself, but for all people you love. Even for people you don't know, because you couldn't possibly spend it all on yourself. You would try to spend every cent, and use it all. Actually, this game is real! Each of us is already a winner of this prize. The prize is time. Each and every morning, we wake up to re- ceive 86,400 seconds as a gift of life. When we go to sleep at night, any remaining ti...