Just back from three weeks in Argentina and Brazil, and back to work tommorrow.
Preparing all the usual back to work stuff, I was reminded of this fabulous piece from the financial times by John Lancaster titled “Can money set you free” that I read back in January.
Lifting a quote from the piece, Lancaster says :
“Money isn’t automatically freedom. You need to look carefully at what you’re doing to earn the money before you can conclude that you are, in practice, free. This is a cost-benefit analysis we should all perform on our own lives. Don’t listen to what people say about freedom and security and money but, instead, look at the specific, actual bargains they are making with their lives.”
It also contains this great quote from the Irish poet Seamus Heaney
“The way we are living,
timorous or bold,
will have been our life.”
(timorous = fearful)
Now where did I leave my pass ?
