drmstream[writing]

The basic chal­lenge in life is cre­at­ing an emo­tional frame­work, in those deal­ings that you have with peo­ple every day, and from time to time, that con­sis­tently pays inter­est. A frame­work where a sim­ple smile, a thank you, a glance…delivered with a moment of con­nec­tion and sincerity…becomes a deposit that pays back.

How that pay­ment comes most likely depends on what sort of emo­tional cur­rency you deal in.

But the ques­tion of how those pay­ments come to you assumes that you’ve built up a credit. And that is a broad assump­tion. We live in an econ­omy where debt–the promise of pay­ing later in order to sat­isfy a need now–is the pri­mary cur­rency. The promise of future pay­ment some­hows deval­ues the basis of the present cur­rency. That is true of our emo­tional frame­work as well. Too many of us look for sat­is­fac­tion from oth­ers now, imme­di­ately, with­out build­ing up the cred­its we need.