The Price is Right

My Literature 14 teacher once said:

The best things in life are for free.

Two definitions popped out from my precise random thinking. One, to acquire something free is to acquire something priceless - something that can't be quantified with money by any means or something that has no financial basis. The other definition is this: to identify something as "best" is to identify that that thing is beyond reach because "the best" is always indefinite.

Such thinking is very pessimistic. By pertaining to the definitions above one can say that:

1. No one can get the best simply because it's the best.
2. Nothing is free because value is defined by money.

It's all sad. However, taking my cue from a friend, it all boils down to one good thing... Which is, hope.

Hope.

When a desolated earthling hopes, he will have the capacity to define what's best, what's free and what's both.