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 time is not credited to us and cannot be saved. What we haven't lived up that day is forever lost. Yesterday is forever gone, but the next morning the account is refilled. Still, the process can stop at any moment without warning!
So, what will you do with your 86,400 seconds? Those seconds are worth so much more than the same amount in dollars. Think about that, and always think of this: Enjoy every second of your life, because time races by so much quicker than you think. Take care of yourself, be happy, love deeply, and enjoy life! Start spending!
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 time is not credited to us and cannot be saved. What we haven't lived up that day is forever lost. Yesterday is forever gone, but the next morning the account is refilled. Still, the process can stop at any moment without warning!
So, what will you do with your 86,400 seconds? Those seconds are worth so much more than the same amount in dollars. Think about that, and always think of this: Enjoy every second of your life, because time races by so much quicker than you think. Take care of yourself, be happy, love deeply, and enjoy life! Start spending!
Intro zu dem neuen Buch von Livia Kohn: Daoist Ways of Working with Multiple Temporalities, Three Pines Press, 2021
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