Good Sunday Morning!

1. Question – Would you consider yourself happy when all your wants are satisfied?

2. Thought – Like everyone else, you are constantly in the middle of an unavoidable predicament caused by two contradictory ideas: insatiability and scarcity. Insatiability means that everyone has unlimited wants. Scarcity means that everything is finite, or limited in quantity.

When insatiability and scarcity combine, choices become necessary. Since time is limited, one must choose which of the many desirable time-consuming activities one wishes to preform. Since money is scarce, one must choose what one wishes to buy. Although making choices is not a pleasant predicament, it is especially perplexing to the unsaved. Life’s choices constantly remind the unregenerate man that he can never be truly happy in a world that defines happiness as satisfaction from all wants. To maximize happiness, therefore, he devotes his energies and activities to an endless cycle of desiring, seeking, acquiring, and consuming those things he believes will bring him satisfaction. (Economics by Alan J. Carper)

“He who is a man of silence is a man of sense. ” (Mark Twain)