Friday, January 4, 2008

Time, money, health and love

As announced in yesterday’s blog, here’s the updated analysis including “love.” If we start from the worst and move up to the best case situation, here’s how I see things stack up:

1. Nothing at all – Zero Point

No time, no health, no money, no love; the pits: Things can’t get any worst.
2. Just Time – One Point
Can make all the other missing elements very painful if time is indeed very long
3. Just Money – Two Point
If plentiful, it may buy some time and some health, who knows? Sorry, you can't buy love
4. Just Health – Three Point
A pretty tangible asset that will keep us going
5. Just Love – Four Point
Sounds romantic, but will it be strong enough to make up for the (missing) rest? Sorry, you can neither sell nor barter love!
6. Time and Health – Five Point
Perhaps cut and dry, but likely to work for most
7. Time and Money – Six Point
The package is a bit limited but it might buy some time and some love
8. Time, Health and Money – Seven Point
Fully functional, but quite cold; nothing warm and fuzzy!
9. Money and Love – Eight Point
Better keep a few dollars to buy some health and time when they become available
10. Time and Love – Nine Point
The perfect setup for everlasting love, if we can do without too much health and money
11. Time, Money and Love – Ten Point
May work well on a tropical island with no one around being sick
12. Health and Money – Eleven Points
Will work, but love is clearly going to be a function of careful timing!
13. Health and Love – Twelve Point
Not such a bad combination if we didn’t have to take a lot of time to buy and enjoy many material things
14. Health, Money and Love – Thirteen Point
Better enjoy everything while it last; make sure to set a few dollars aside to buy more time
15. Time, Health and Love – Fourteen Point
All is almost perfect as long as everything stays cheap
16. Time, Health, Money and Love - Fifteen Point
Nirvana? At the very least a perfect life

I realize these elements are not that "black and white" and there's room for much more "gray area" in each one of them; however, if your views happen to drastically differ from mine, we all would love to know them, so please, write down a comment and explain how you see things!

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