Papel
What he wants to know is this. If I wasn't funded then what was the point of me going to New York? I tried explaining but now I have a headache. I know this headache now, it's all too familiar. It's the communication breakdown headache and it hurts like hell. Physically. And it lingers the longest. So now I have to dissect it or I can't go on with my day. He's thinking money. He's thinking bottomlines. He's thinking if they didn't pay for my ticket then what's the big deal. He doesn't understand. He doesn't see that money is just pieces of paper only worth the things you can buy with it. Like a ray of light invisible until it falls on something worth seeing.
posted by abstention at 10:36 PM
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Paper.
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yes. paper.
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That,s the perenial question.... why is it that we do the things we do... apparently gratis. Sustainability? An idea a concept, a belief, an aspiration. Everyone does it, even the man who questions the above reasons to fly all the way to NY city does it himself in some way or another without realising it. He takes his kid to a show, a girlfriend to a movie, a friend for a meal, or maybe a pilgrimage to some distant place. Whatever it is we do it because eventually our investment in time and energy (and not necessarily in money) brings about a fulfilment and that has a long term implication. Karma? Love? Passion?
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