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Among my baby's favorite toys are his honey stirrer and his spatula. (Actual baby toys he spurns.)
Today I thought I'd start teaching him about opportunity costs (after all he is seven months old now) by offering him both, and when he grabbed one, I'd take the other away. So he grabbed the honey stirrer, and I started to set the spatula aside, but then he reached for it, and I didn't have the heart to deny him, so he ended up with both.
And then I thought, maybe I'm teaching the wrong thing here. Maybe I should be learning from him. Maybe there don't need to be opportunity costs in life at all. Maybe, when faced with a dilemma, it's always possible to choose both. You could base a whole philosophy on the premise that all supposedly exclusive choices are false.
But I wrote this journal entry instead.