Count the Costs

If every “yes” that someone says contains a complimentary “no”, and every time someone affirms in one place, they negate another, one should examine the costs for the “yes” and “no” decisions. For example, “I have to go to work” also says, “I cannot stay home.” (Unless one works at home of course), means there will be a cost for not staying home or there will be a cost for going to work. Most people won't stop long enough to know the costs that will be incurred for their decisions until after decisions are made. However, much heartache may be saved by counting the costs in advance.

People who marry realize the costs after they do so, and so do people with children. Married people generally forsake all others, and those with children know the costs of late nights either rocking, feeding, burping or worrying about their children, and that's only speaking of when they're teenagers. Spouses don't generally like it when faithfulness isn't kept, nor do parents like it when children rebel. There are certain costs associated with matrimony and parenthood.

Where one spends his or her time has associated costs, and since person has a difficulty being two places at one time, if they choose to be in one place, they cannot be at another. There is a cost for being absent from this event rather than that, and often the costs associated with absenteeism is relational and has its effects long after the event is missed. For example when a father misses his son's high school graduation for a softball game, or when a mother misses the board meeting for her daughter's dance. Each have their respective costs, and one must choose which one will lose and which one will win. The choice will contain pending results, and the one who chooses will pay the price.

So, who will it be? Greenbay or Pittsburgh? The wife or the mistress? The boss or the child? Here or there? Belief or unbelief? Time or no time? Give or not to give? Be or not to be? and on and on the choices with consequences roll. Until tomorrow...Why Say More?