If you'd stay, I'd subtract Twenty years from my life
For some reason these lines from Billy Vera's song "At This Moment" have been running through my head recently. Sometimes I like to think about hypotheticals, such as, "Would someone really give up 20 years of his life for a romantic interest?" I'm not a good candidate for this question, for two reasons. One, I am happily married; and two, I am over 50, so losing 20 years off my life seems pretty dire at this point. Let's assume, then, that we are dealing with a 20-something person who is desperately in love and appears not likely to win their beloved's heart. Even in those circumstances, would you do it? At other times, I have used speculative questions like this to wonder how a person would assess the reality of the offer. For example, if someone offered to buy your soul for $1 million, would you accept? You probably would not think that this person could literally buy your soul even if he wanted to, but would you take a chance anyway? ...