Wednesday, November 30, 2011

quote for the day

"Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, there was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for planning. No time for a future. But then lifespans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future - you go to highschool so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college."

John Green, Paper Towns

2 comments:

Omnipotent Poobah said...

...which proves my point that money isn't the root of all evil, money is.

daveawayfromhome said...

People are the root of all evil. Money just makes it easier.