→ You Can’t Take It With You
after graduation, i started thinking a lot more about money and goals. yeah, i know i should have done that much earlier (but hey, now i’ve got a few more years before real life here in grad school) but it has definitely made me think about my life much differently. just as a small example: i haven’t spent a single cent on any sort of clothing in the last 4 months. i just haven’t seen the need. every time i think “hmm, i really could use a new pair of dress pants,” i remind myself that i already have what i need. anyone who cares about me wearing the same pair of pants to church this week as i did last week is someone that i really don’t care about pleasing that much.
anyway, today there is a post on one of my new favorite blogs, thesimpledollar.com that really hit home with me. the blogger, trent, talks about how he watched a classic movie called “you can’t take it with you” and what it made him think about. his feelings seem to match almost exactly the way i have started thinking in recent months so i recommend that you go read it now.