We are learning in economics class the difference between marginal cost and benefit. Marginal cost is the price you pay (be it a dollar amount, or emotional price) to obtain a certain "good". The benefit is the satisfaction this item gives you. In order to figure this out you must weigh your options:
Can you afford this item?
Are you willing to pay the price?
Is sacrificing something for it going to be worth it?
It's an easy enough concept, but I'm not talking just a new pair of pumps here. If you really think about how we have to make these choices in real life...well, fuck, it gets hard.
I moved to Boston thinking that my benefit would 100% outweigh my cost. I'd be working more, in school full time, and miss seeing my closest sister-friends. However, I would be gaining an education, the chance to see my family all the time, the opportunity to meet new people, have more things to do, more options, even the shopping and food is better here.
I did not, however, take into consideration the other price I would pay.
Making a big change in life is wonderful, it is very rare we have a large support system to help us along with these choices. But what happens when you feel like this change has really CHANGED you? How do you learn to readjust to the new world you have created? What if it changes all the things that seemed constant and perfect? Can we then come full circle (as everything does in life) and find ourselves again? Maybe "full circle" only comes into play when things stay the same, and you ride them out; if we "change" the path...can this still happen for us?
