Cost of Investment

The cost of investment.  What has it cost you lately to invest in others?  No doubt, it has cost you time. A considerable amount of time.  No educator stops thinking, planning, or reflecting just because the car door closed behind them.  It has cost you money.  At least as elementary and pre-k people, you can't just not make sure they have what they need, you go above and beyond to provide.  It has cost you emotionally.  Tears, fears, excitement...all jumbled together.  It has cost you energy...I know, I saw it on your faces about 2:00 yesterday...someone stated, "Longest day ever...."   

But I ask you, is what you are investing in worth the cost you are paying?  It doesn't matter if we are talking education, home, sports, hobbies, TV, job...they are all costing you something.  

There are days I am woefully complaining because I don't see or feel the immediate ROI (return on investment).  There are days that I forget that I am not investing in the short term but the long term.  There are times when I forget that others selflessly have invested in me, only to be disappointed by their ROI.  

Today, may I, may you, step back and consider the cost of investment.  Investing too much, too little or just right?  Investing for the long term or the short term?  Investing for the sake of others or only for yourself?  May you invest well.