Reality Distortion Field

I just finished reading a book about Steve Jobs. It was a pretty good read. I have always been fascinated by the Macintosh computer and this book provided a host of background information about its development. Steve Jobs is likewise fascinating, but for his quirks (i.e. he never bought license plates for his cars) as much as for his vision of quality. Another of his idiosyncratic behaviors was termed "The reality distortion field" when he seemed to discount reality and impose his own version of what he thought might be possible if he pushed hard enough. In some sense, this concept has the ring of truth to me because of the nature of humans to push the envelope of what is possible and accomplish what would have been thought impossible.I'm applying this "reality distortion field" thinking to my shopping for a motor home. One is for sale on my street (the Bounder). The price is $3,800. What a deal, dimes on the dollar! Most of my reality based family is telling me it is a mistake, and I know they are right. The snag is that the upside of irrationality tends to be more exciting than the downside of practicality. Woody Guthrie's autobiography, Bound for Glory, bears consideration here too. Well, of course I'm not in that league, but in the back of my mind rests the thought that, "Bounder" would be a lot of fun and fulfill T.S. Eliot's injunction that old men should be explorers.