Enjoyment Doesn’t Lie In Prices
Though a man could savor the most delicious, expensive food in the world, yet he wouldn’t surpass a healthy, hungry coolie savoring the simplest, cheapest meal.
Though one could sleep in the softest, warmest bed in a five star hotel, yet not softer, nicer than a Pedi cab driver sleeping soundly in the loudest traffic in his Pedi cab.
Though one could afford world tours, he wouldn’t surpass Opa Johan’s pleasures, delights, adventure during his mountain trip just from Gobang to Cigudeg.
You can’t hasten life. You can’t eat more, sleep more, hear more, see more, feel more, read more, enjoy more, … more than is within your capacity, how much money you ever may have. You can’t catch, make up for what you have missed, lost before.
January 2009
Though a man could savor the most delicious, expensive food in the world, yet he wouldn’t surpass a healthy, hungry coolie savoring the simplest, cheapest meal.
Though one could sleep in the softest, warmest bed in a five star hotel, yet not softer, nicer than a Pedi cab driver sleeping soundly in the loudest traffic in his Pedi cab.
Though one could afford world tours, he wouldn’t surpass Opa Johan’s pleasures, delights, adventure during his mountain trip just from Gobang to Cigudeg.
You can’t hasten life. You can’t eat more, sleep more, hear more, see more, feel more, read more, enjoy more, … more than is within your capacity, how much money you ever may have. You can’t catch, make up for what you have missed, lost before.
January 2009
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