Nice? Of course.
On living simply, of course, people would say that, expensive things manifest more Quality (as Pirsig puts it), are more enjoyable, and better.
And of course, they are right. We should not be hypocrites, really.
But my question to myself is, is it worth it? The quid pro quo? What do you give, in exchange?
We make our own calculations, our own weighing, our own choices.
After all, we are what we are. (It is what it is, as a friend of mine likes to put it). I might be a rich man, and indulge in life and quality, but unfortunately or fortunately (in the face of fate it doesn't matter - there is after all no point arguing with fate) i am not. I am who i am - specifically, i am me, and my circumstances.
We all live.
(and there is of course also pleasure to be found in a simple meal, a long bus journey, a gentle sunset...)
We all live.
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