My First Million

Nearly 3 years ago around 2 am I woke with a crazy urge to count how many words I have actually journaled over the years. After 5 hours of this tedium as most of my journals are paper based, and after coming up with the scheme of estimating each line with 12 words multiplied by the number of lines on a page times the number of pages in each journal, I came up with 609,000 words. Now, after hitting the One Million mark, I am tempted to compare my million with the million that so many budding entrepreneurs shoot for. Of course mine logically has no real bearing against the one followed by six zero's. At least not at first glance. I began to ask myself: Have I made a million dollars over the past bunch of years? Nope. But to make a million dollars it would have to be earned in one calendar year, right? Would I really want to write a million words in one year? Even if I did would anyone want to read them? Would all of my words be worth a dollar each? How many words truly equate to a million dollars - and if the economy keeps taking a dump will fewer words equal more? Then the circle of thinking leads to the obvious differences between words and dollars. Words are qualitative and are motivated by expression. Dollars are quantitative and are motivated by everything from survival to selfishness. So then I wonder, how does the use of words compare to the use of dollars? Do we communicate with a frugality perspective that less is more or do we pontificate ad nauseum because our perspective is more important than the person or people to whom we seek to relate? Do we spend money with a frugality perspective that less is more or do we spend beyond our limits because our needs are more important than the people with whom we share the planet?