I found a new one for a great price and my dad and I drove the 4 hours to go pick it up. I was sooo happy. I loved that first motorcycle and I still do. But like anything under appreciated by the masses at the time they now have become rare, cool and collectible. It also doesn't help that they were used up like cheap disposable motorcycles for tons of new racers.
What I bought for $1,000 back in the day now is $2,500 for a good condition, stock one. Heck, I just found one on CL up in Loma Linda. At what price do you give in to your childhood dreams and nostalgia? Is $2,500 a cheap dream or an expensive one? (later in life I did buy a VTR250 and a FZR400, the motorcycles I most wanted as a kid. I outgrew the VTR and the FZR stranded me multiple times with electrical gremlins so they both had to go)
(picture from the actual ad and exactly how mine looked back in high school)I've also lately been dreaming about graduate school in Israel. Trying to figure it out. But at what price do I chase that dream? I was prepared to move away from family for two years for PA school. But this is a foreign country. And not the same level of guaranteed employment either. When I went to Iraq for work the plan was the same thing and I feel like I failed there. This would be redemptive.
At what price do you follow a dream? At the expense of your family? Hobbies? Life savings? I'm not sure I know the answer to that or could come up with it on my own.................
I think you've hit on a really good question. What is the price, I think some would say "dignity" but that's kind of a crap answer in general.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I would ever leave my life now to go to a foreign country for graduate school, and how long has this idea been in your mind? That's my thinking. I need to know, solidly, that its what I want to do for the rest of my "career" in order to make that kind of sacrifice. However, I'm also a dedicated planner and quite routine in my ways. I think through every possibility, and I'm quite practical.