If it costs you your peace, it is too expensive.

When does the value of something become clearly out of consideration?

If we are continuously expecting to live a life of relative harmony, and wish to protect that precious frame of mind, we add a very serious criteria to the overall considerations that we would be contemplating in the course of making our most momentous decisions.

The opportunity to facilitate a life in which we are continuously appreciative of our world and overall surroundings is more valuable than any resource or reward that could be bestowed upon us in the circumstances in which we are no longer fully able to control all aspects of our world and our collective destiny.

If these are the benchmarks by which we are measuring our ultimate happiness and wealth, perhaps we would be more willing to consider how, and when, specific variables are likely to threaten that dynamic and leave us in a cautionary frame of mind. In that moment, we must contemplate the true cost of something, as measured by qualities of our life that we might be willing to relinquish, in favor of some other form of reward that we deem more important than our overall peace of mind.

This becomes tremendously complicated as we grow older, and we ultimately incur the continuous costs associated with maintaining our financial solvency, while working to equally maintain our core frame of mind.

Eventually, we might discover that there are opportunities that present themselves which are less likely to be entirely tolerable, and which therefore are ultimately too expensive for our ultimate consideration.

When we are secure enough to enable the execution of this thought process, we are fully ready to evaluate the opportunities by that criteria and ultimately make decisions which we can presumably live with after having done so.

Sanity is truly a valuable asset. Perhaps it is the most important and valuable asset of them all…. If you are selling yours for a song, you should rethink that perspective and evaluate at what price you are mortgaging your frame of mind.

Happy Monday!