Let me pose to any readers out there, a psychological/ philosophical question.
Let's say you're a smoker. You have two lighters and it will be some time before you can get another one. One is 1/4 full and seems to be dying yet still gives a flame. The other is full with a very strong flame. Would you use the dying one til it dies and save the good one for later or use the good one til it dies and then keep the lesser one for backup?
If you don't smoke, replace the lighteres with batteries for a device you like to use often like say, a camera or MP3 player or cellphone.
There. That's my psychological/ philosophical question for the day.
Posted by Darkstar at October 26, 2006 08:28 AM | TrackBackI found myself buying a new lighter today, while my working lighter is basically 1/3rd full and very viable. Found myself using the New one immediately while the old one was sitting in my hand. After I did this, I remembered this post. Weird, it was an unconscience thing to do. I guess the focus was on the new, and untried. Human nature? The need to have a "sure" thing while a tried a true was available? No sure what it is...I now have both sitting next to me having me wonder this. HOWEVER...I am making a conscience effort to only use the "old" one.
The Battery thing..I'm weird...I wait til things are TOTALLY dead..and even then, try to eke out that LAST bit of power before I change them. ( spin, change patterns,scrape connections ..etc)
Supplicated by: FataMorgana at October 27, 2006 10:46 PM