# Your Life As A Currency

> The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which
> is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long r
> un.
>
> Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", Ch.1: ECONOMY

When I thought of this quote today, I had a vision of a life being
a currency. You use the currency to get things in your life. Time
passing is an inflation. The value of newly minted supply goes dow
n in the long term due to it. In the short term, it can go up. Lik
e a day before your death.

What you really have to budget is this currency. Not other typical
currencies. This is not time management. Life is not time. It is m
ore about quality than quantity. But yes, time can be useful to me
asure the quantity side of your life.

I will do some experiments on budgeting my life. I'll post more if
I found something.