Flera gånger, såväl direkt som indirekt, har jag återkommit till balansen mellan att leva här och nu samt att planera för att morgondagen inte kommer att komma med hemska nyheter och förutsättningar. Morgan Housel, som jag då och då brukar citera, skriver det bra i sin bok The Pshycology of Money, där han skildrar följande: ”At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have … enough.” Enough. I was stunned by the simple eloquence of that word—stunned for two reasons: first, because I have been given so much in my own life and, second, because Joseph Heller couldn’t have been more accurate. For a critical element of our society, including many of the wealthiest and most powerful among us, there seems to be no limit today on what enough entails. ”
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