I once saw an interview with a Rangers fan who related that he was offered $20,000 [!!!] for his ticket[s?] to the 7th game of the '94 Stanley Cup finals. He turned the offer down and explained why [he was Jewish by the way]: $20,000 won't change his life. The Rangers winning the Stanley Cup will. [MAZEL TOVVV - They won the game and their first Stanley Cup since 1940]
Ahhhhh:-).
Had I not made learning Torah my life, I would have been a psychologist. I wish I could have been his [especially since he is not מחשיב twenty grand, so he could pay big-time:-)]. His thoughts [like most of our thoughts] were a fiction of his [distorted] mind. The proof is that the MOMENT he decides that the Rangers don't matter - they cease to matter. Another proof is that if he were at the funeral of his child [G-d forbid] and someone approached him as they were lowering his child into the earth and started telling him that the Rangers are up 2-1 in the third period, he would not only not care but be angry at this person for bringing up something so frivolous at a time like this.
Because... frivolous it is. But that is the culture in which we live and in the very air we breath. It is nice though to have a reality check at times.
#iwouldhavetakenthemoney
