Lauren asked Arthur to imagine that he had won a prize in a competition - every morning the bank opened a loan for him of $86,400. Но есть правила.
- The first is that everything not spent during the day is withdrawn in the evening, and you cannot cheat - say, you cannot transfer money to another account, you can only spend it, but every morning when you wake up, the bank opens a new account for you - $ 86,400 for the current day.
Second rule: the bank has the right to interrupt the game without warning; at any moment he can declare that it’s all over, the account is closed and there will be no new one.
— Что бы ты сделал?
Артур пожал плечами.
- But it’s simple: every morning when you wake up, you are given 86,400 dollars, with the only condition that you spend it all during the day, the unused balance is taken away from you when you go to bed, it’s such a gift, but the game can end at any moment.
Question: What would you do with the money?
He replied that he would spend every dollar on his own pleasure and on buying a lot of gifts for those he loves. He would use every cent from this magic pot to bring happiness into his life and the lives of those around him, “even those I don’t know, because I’m not sure I could spend $86,400 a day on myself and my loved ones; но к чему ты клонишь?».
She replied:
- Such a magical bank is available to each of us - it’s time! A cornucopia from which seconds constantly flow...
Every morning when we wake up, we receive a credit of 86,400 seconds of life per day, and when we fall asleep in the evening, the supply disappears, and what was not lived during the day is gone.
Every morning the magic begins anew, we are again given a credit of 86,400 seconds. And we play by a rule that cannot be circumvented: the bank can close the account at any time without warning; life can stop at any second. What do we do with our daily 86,400 seconds? A second of life is more important than a dollar, right?
© Levi Mark, Between Heaven and Earth
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru