The Napkin Dilemma
Posted: 03 March 2009 by Brian in
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What I'm about to write about deals with an inner self-conflict I've dealt with for a pretty long time. I don't care about what you have to say about it, it's MY BLOG. But to put this issue in ways people can easily understand, I've used napkins as the metaphor. Pay close attention to my wording. Are you ready? Behold, the Napkin Dilemma.
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First of all, you love napkins. You treat napkins with respect and care very much for napkins. You don't really need napkins to live your life, but you'd prefer to have one around once and a while. So you're at the store, and you're faced with a decision on which napkins to buy. There's a stack of napkins, but you're unsure whether to buy them or not. This stack of napkins is easy to find and they're very common. They can fulfill physical needs if you really wanted them to. Furthermore, the napkins are very affordable; it's almost as though the napkins themselves want you to buy them. The only thing holding you back from buying these napkins is the possibility of finding another, rarer napkin. Not a stack, but just a single napkin that fulfills everything you'd want from a napkin. However, the napkin is not very affordable, and even if it's worth it, the napkin itself may not want you to buy it. It would feel like you'd take the best care of this particular napkin, while you'd just be living a lie with each and every one from the stack of napkins. So which do you choose? Keep in mind that you're a classy kind of person, and that you have very high standards for napkins. Do you lower your standards to try out the always-there stack of napkins, and use them one by one? Or do you wait around for the napkin you've always wanted?
Quote of the day:
"When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." ~Albert Einstein
I find it funny how quickly this quarter's gone by. It's already week 9 and we'll be on spring break really soon. In what seems like a direct contrast to what Einstein said, when you're busy, everything passes you by. The hours turn into days, the days turn into weeks, and the weeks turn into months. Pretty soon you've found yourself at the end without knowing how you got there. But when you have something special in your life, time seems to slow down. You actually take the time to make memories.