tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10882105.post629098728560595774..comments2023-11-02T06:28:23.104-07:00Comments on ... and now for something completely different.: What is "success"?dbackdadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10700991588554336491noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10882105.post-25925908246026922562010-04-29T14:56:40.411-07:002010-04-29T14:56:40.411-07:00There's no way I could do that. I highlight i...There's no way I could do that. I highlight it more as an example of the ways in which someone can profoundly affect others without spending a dime.<br /><br />Money isn't bad by itself. It's just not healthy if it's the only goal.<br /><br />And I agree about the setting. It is a uniquely NY story.dbackdadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10700991588554336491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10882105.post-26881071367651580872010-04-28T22:39:54.546-07:002010-04-28T22:39:54.546-07:00I also heard of this story. It fascinates me a co...I also heard of this story. It fascinates me a couple different ways: I love it because it's New York, a place with such a condensation of diverse stories--I love the place and I naturally am drawn to the stories that define it; but I also love it because (as you write) it's so hard for me to imagine such a life. I honestly can't quite imagine being happy with absolutely nothing, not because I think these 'things' are important or that they MAKE me happy per se, but because living utterly without would require a wholesale retooling of life itself. Even if I think this admirable (and I just don't know), I suspect I'm neither political nor motivated nor courageous enough to be the person to do it.<br /><br />I wonder at pre-industrial life, at what a more subsistence-level existence would have been like.wstachourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12447198404608861357noreply@blogger.com