More thoughts on money.

I just had some more thought about money and power, and came up with an interesting analogy.

If one was to think of life as being some extremely complex, multi layered puzzle that extended into infinity, and that money and power simply meant that you could get someone else to do part of the puzzle for you, then that's a fairly good analogy.

I mean, the puzzle would still be there to do, but part of it would have been done. Yet what would be the point? What would have been learned from having someone else do one's puzzle? And besides, there'd still be puzzle left to do.

It's funny, but I think I may have just been cheated out of a few hundred dollars by someone at a time when I'm really low on cash. It's left me with just a few bucks to survive. But why do I feel good about it? Why do I find it an exciting challenge, rather than a depressing thing that makes me angry? Perhaps because I like the thrill of surviving more than the state of luxury?

That may well be it.