cherish and preserve what is crucial to you

I used to think if something was easily broken, it deserved to break. It was cheap, expendable.

But the best things in life are often fragile, perhaps even delicate.

It’s easy to break things—it’s so much harder to cultivate. To build. Things built over your entire life can topple down in a second.

The Olympic torch is a classic example of this mentality and, indeed, culture itself. Literally carrying the torch of civilization.

Warren Buffet has a story he tells about this. Imagine you get a single car for the rest of your life. How would you treat it?

Now, I treat my car like crap. But it’s a good thought experiment. If something is valuable to you, treat it well. We all value different things.

Now, I believe we should do what we can to cherish and preserve what is crucial to us.

Stay tuned, next time I’ll share my edgiest opinion: relief vs. reform.