Money

From The Other by David Guterson:

"Your friend Barry," he answered.  "He named you in his will."

I didn't answer.  I sat there thinking, like an English teacher, that even $440 million didn't stand between me and annihilation. (p. 205)

I have been thinking a lot about money these days.

I have become a member of business acceleration center VT KnowledgeWorks and am tracking what it's like in The Accelerated Entrepreneur.

I think the business plan I have written at age 49 1/2 is different from the one I would have written at age 25. 

At 25, I believed all things were possible.  At 49 1/2, I know that annihilation--or getting hit by a bus--could happen at any moment.  No amount of money can change that.

I sometimes misstep at being present in the moment, but I nodded my head when I read those lines from Guterson.

Ironically, thoughts of annihilation or getting hit by a bus or making money or not making money don't upset me much.

It's because I love my life.