Bandrew » Profundity http://bandrew.com by Andrew Mason, resident of Chicago, founder of The Point. Go to smandrew.com instead. Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:16:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 A short parable that I would use somehow if I became a motivational speaker tomorrow but have lived long enough to know that a couple of years from now I will be embarrassed that the thought even crossed my mind http://bandrew.com/a-short-parable-that-i-would-use-somehow-if-i-became-a-motivational-speaker-tomorrow-but-have-lived-long-enough-to-know-that-a-couple-of-years-from-now-i-will-be-embarrassed-that-the-thought-even-cros/ http://bandrew.com/a-short-parable-that-i-would-use-somehow-if-i-became-a-motivational-speaker-tomorrow-but-have-lived-long-enough-to-know-that-a-couple-of-years-from-now-i-will-be-embarrassed-that-the-thought-even-cros/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:53:49 +0000 Andrew http://bandrew.com/a-short-parable-that-i-would-use-somehow-if-i-became-a-motivational-speaker-tomorrow-but-have-lived-long-enough-to-know-that-a-couple-of-years-from-now-i-will-be-embarrassed-that-the-thought-even-cros/ The other day, I was talking to my girlfriend about expensive wine.

“What’s so great about expensive wine?” I asked.

“The complexity of taste,” she replied. “In fine wines, you can taste all kinds of things. Like almonds.”

I thought about this and realized, you know what else tastes like almonds? Almonds.

Just eat almonds.

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