Phil-osophy

From Television Without Pity's Interview with Amazing Race host Phil Keoghan:

...if you use your imagination as your currency, it's better in the long run than looking into your wallet to try to pull out a wad of cash to make a better and richer life....the whole message in the media right now is...you deserve a bigger house, you deserve a bigger car, you need money to be happy...

You need a makeover, you need to be this, you need to be that...I'm like, "Enough already." People are trying to attain things that are sometimes not realistic for their life. And you don't need to have the big house and the big whatever-it-is, and the big wad of cash to have a rich life. Or the makeover, or whatever it is. You can actually have a great life without that. And this whole slogan of "Imagination Is Your Currency," is to get everybody to go back to being resourceful.

This country is the land of dreams. This is the country that was founded by people who were resourceful, who were imaginative, who were creative, and I feel like...we're getting more towards a sort of...you know, that easy fix. We're getting towards people looking for instant gratification. And I'm trying to say...no. Things come from hard work. And the satisfaction of getting your first home that you work for, or that job that you work so hard for, or setting up that business and reaping the rewards from that, taking that leap of faith and risking more to gain more is much better than looking for instant gratification.

Amen, brother!

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Posted by on October 12, 2004 @ October 12, 2004 09:06 AM    
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