-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone has quirks. The best part about quirks are that they are impossible to measure because their weight is priceless. One of my quirks is that I have something I like to call quarter bets. All a quarter bet consists of is exactly what it sounds like; it is simply the act of proving a two-sided hypothesis with the sole worth of risking all the odds on a quarter. I never really took the time to consider why these bets were my thing, until I made a particular bet which made me realize that some things are impossible to pay back.
Maybe the reason why the concept of quarter bets are so significant to me is because it is taking spoken words and giving them value. By amounting our words, you would think that we would speak more carefully. But what I have discovered is that although a quarter's equivalence can be divided in several ways, when it comes down to it, some things really are impossible to pay back, even if it is just a quarter.
Which is all it is, just another quarter bet. Although it is such a minuscule moment, what I had failed to recognize is the price of how much that minuscule moment would cost me. We can label what is expensive versus cheap. Likewise, we hand-pick our budget compromising what is and is not worth paying for.
When I gave up my quarter, I later found out that it was left on a table. While some battles should be left on the table because they are worth all the money in the world, others are just not worth the profit and should only collect dust amounting to nothing more than the worth of what it truly is. The quarter is left on his desk without a fight.
My two cents on this quarter bet is that some things are a little too late to pay back.
However, my million dollar idea that not a single quarter bet could ever afford is realizing the amount of my two cents = $ Priceless.
