A great book for when people have enough financial backup to explore a bit. Nowadays with people's 401k down 40% and underwater in their house, they can't afford to take a year off to 'figure life out'
You only get what Mary Oliver calls "your one wild and precious life." So if living it well means giving up the 401k, walking away from the house and filing bankruptcy, then that's a valid choice.
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I keep that poem on my desktop so I can read the last two lines every day and it is slowly coming to influence the decisions I make:
"Tell me what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?"
You only get what Mary Oliver calls "your one wild and precious life." So if living it well means giving up the 401k, walking away from the house and filing bankruptcy, then that's a valid choice.
[edit] I keep that poem on my desktop so I can read the last two lines every day and it is slowly coming to influence the decisions I make:
"Tell me what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?"