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leapinlew:

--- Quote from: shmokes on March 04, 2012, 08:13:26 pm ---I chalk that up to money well spent for the experience :))

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If you haven't paid ebay/paypal fees in a while, be prepared to enjoy some more experience.

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: shmokes on February 27, 2012, 03:16:02 pm ---When I really started giving this thought was around the time I was signing up to take the bar. My intention all along was to take the New York Bar and move away from Miami after law school (hopefully to Paris, but NY or DC alternatively). But as law school was winding down, and I was going to register for the bar, there was a serious temptation to just take the Florida bar. And I realized that I felt this way largely because the thought of packing up all this stuff I had and moving it was so unpleasant.

I have all this stuff. And I value it, my stuff. I value it a lot, but why do I value it? The only thing that made 99% of my stuff special is that it was mine. And here I was, reconsidering whether I should go out and continue pursuing my dreams and gaining rich new experiences from around the country, hopefully around the world, because carrying all this stuff with me would be such a nuisance.

We decided to sell almost everything we owned. My book collection was huge. I had an enormous library of books, among which were about 30-40 Easton Press editions which are extremely nice books with the following characteristics (copied from Wikipedia):

    bound in fine genuine leather
    22kt gold-stamped spine accents
    distinctive raised spine hubs
    intricate gilt stamped cover designs
    specially milled acid-neutral paper
    Smyth-sewn pages
    gilded page edges
    endsheets of moiré silk
    permanent satin ribbon page-marker

They're beautiful. And I loved my books, beautiful and ugly, for their contents. But . . . once I'd read them, I just owned them. That's the only thing I did with them. I owned them. And maybe there is some intrinsic value to ownership, in and of itself. But maybe all the things you have and collect pile up around you and make you unable to even see some of the potentially more valuable things out there.  

In hindsight, the legal market is so bad that I probably would have been better off taking the Florida bar, getting a good job in Miami, which would have been much easier, and trying to break into the type of law I really want to practice (international arbitration) a few years down the road when the economy improves. But that's another conversation for another time, lol.

This whole thing makes me think of the brilliant speech from Up IN The Air. Brilliantly written and delivered, I mean. The message of the speech is too extreme probably bad advice in the long term, at least for most people. But there is at least a grain of truth to it.

Link to video - Embed doesn't work



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your link sucks, but you probably were linking to this scene?



Great movie. Yes, extreme. If you could actually follow that mantra, you'd be a hobo!

Trailers for sale or rent...

shmokes:
Yeah . . . that's it. When I searched Youtube I was searching for the scene in the movie in which he gives the speech. And all I could find were the trailers (which I didn't realize had the speech). Then I googled it and was led to the facebook video I linked to, which was of course a trailer, but I was apparently unable to put two and two together.

shmokes:
A final look at the collection.

Hoopz:
Any pangs of regret?

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