What a strange vintage we are. Constantly needing to photograph each thing, each moment. What other species demands to self archive everything? The same information, experiences, places visually captured over and over again. What do we expect to learn from it; from taking a picture of it all? No Coining - All Rights Reserved

Dec 3, 2022

You're a legend

Just through the jungle, not even 100 meters from here is a waterfall. No, not that one. Yes, that is also a waterfall, but not the waterfall we're here to pontificate about today. 

Go ahead, zoom in, just trees. But, I promise you the waterfall is there.

Story Problem 
Does the cost of crossing100 meters equal or exceed the value of seeing the waterfall?

Vocabulary

Cost ≠ Price 
Value ≠ Worth

Cost = Physical
Price = Dollar
Value = Emotional
Worth = Monetary

For this thought experiment we cannot dilute the monetary with the emotional and vice versa. Look at that picture again. There is not a monetary cost to walk that last 100 meters. The walk is free of dollars and cents. 

Therefore we are left with a single question: physical cost for emotional value?

Maybe not, maybe, curiosity.

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