a thought for my memiors

I'm always amazed at how creative and wishful people can be when given the opportunity. Part of my job as an investment banker is to get my clients to see life from another angle, from a bigger, god-like perspective. So we talk about things that are here and real and prima-facie, and we also talk about things that might be and could be, and even things that aren't but we want to be. And I'm surprised at how well, with a little prodding, people move between the two, and how easy it is, as a leader, to instill a measure of balance with a simple allusion to the other side. Often my job is to pull a person from the stern and calculated into the vast, unsearchable wonder of God, and to pull another who is dreamy-eyed and fanatically irrelevant back in unision with day-to-day life.

We are so prone to view ourselves and life's happenings through one of these lenses. What a joy to appreciate both.