Lost and Found
When I was in high school, I took a course that taught me about the opportunity cost. Opportunity cost is simply the cost you, me, the entire world pays for making a decision, and the opportunity that is lost. For every time a decision is made, one choice is chosen, and at least one other choice is rejected, and the experience and opportunity of those choices not made are gone.
For example, I chose to go to class that day, although I really didn’t enjoy Economics at all, and I gave up the chance to jump in my car and in a very silly manner drive away without ever looking back.
Although that happened often enough...
So, according to my economics teacher, we’re constantly in a state of losing, and gaining. And thinking about the culture I’ve sorta grown up in, the songs and movies and people I know, it seems to me people lose things more often then finding them.
Loss of innocence.
Loss of intergrity.
Loss of control.
Losing your temper.
Losing face.
Losing yourself.
The list goes on. But every one of those losses is a choice, as much as folks might hate to admit that, that’s a truth. Think about it.
What have you lost and gained lately?
What have I lost and gained lately?
I’ve lost a lot of respect from a number of people…and maybe gained a whole bunch back with a whole different crowd.
I’ve gained some perspective and lost some of my old, self-damaging and self-hating instincts and behavioural patterns.
I’ve lost a decent amount of weight…and am even heavier with debt.
I’ve lost the party part of me, if there ever was one, and I’ve found that free spirited, joyfully spotatneous and light hearted side of me.
For the first time I’ve gained a passionate love of nature, and completely lost myself in the moment.
I discovered so many refreshingly different thoughts, beliefs, and people and yet I lost my appetite.
I lost love, found hate, then left that hate behind as I discovered I had never really lost love at all, but had simply closed my eyes.
I found that I had wings all along, and as my mind and spirit unfolds them, my body feels like it’s lost…
but, with much of everything I know of, it’s through the balance of both realms that I exist, and flourish.
Just a little lost and found for thought...
For example, I chose to go to class that day, although I really didn’t enjoy Economics at all, and I gave up the chance to jump in my car and in a very silly manner drive away without ever looking back.
Although that happened often enough...
So, according to my economics teacher, we’re constantly in a state of losing, and gaining. And thinking about the culture I’ve sorta grown up in, the songs and movies and people I know, it seems to me people lose things more often then finding them.
Loss of innocence.
Loss of intergrity.
Loss of control.
Losing your temper.
Losing face.
Losing yourself.
The list goes on. But every one of those losses is a choice, as much as folks might hate to admit that, that’s a truth. Think about it.
What have you lost and gained lately?
What have I lost and gained lately?
I’ve lost a lot of respect from a number of people…and maybe gained a whole bunch back with a whole different crowd.
I’ve gained some perspective and lost some of my old, self-damaging and self-hating instincts and behavioural patterns.
I’ve lost a decent amount of weight…and am even heavier with debt.
I’ve lost the party part of me, if there ever was one, and I’ve found that free spirited, joyfully spotatneous and light hearted side of me.
For the first time I’ve gained a passionate love of nature, and completely lost myself in the moment.
I discovered so many refreshingly different thoughts, beliefs, and people and yet I lost my appetite.
I lost love, found hate, then left that hate behind as I discovered I had never really lost love at all, but had simply closed my eyes.
I found that I had wings all along, and as my mind and spirit unfolds them, my body feels like it’s lost…
but, with much of everything I know of, it’s through the balance of both realms that I exist, and flourish.
Just a little lost and found for thought...