It’s like, at the end, there’s this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?
-Richard Bach, writer (1936- )
Metaphor
Surely some revelation is at hand.
It’s like, at the end, there’s this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?
-Richard Bach, writer (1936- )
Metaphor 
I thought I was 'taking a stand',and standing up for the weak andpeople thrown away by society because they don't conform. Now,I don't know…if I did or not.And when the backlash was whopping with condemnation, I thought I was a fool. It's easy to be foolish when the boots are stomping.
The third question of the sequence is mis-phrased, if it purports to follow the first two. It ought to read, "Is it [that is, my present life] worth what [that is, the previous period of my life] I paid?" And that's a question of great interest because it requires assessing (or at least deliberating upon) both what value one places on one's life prior to asking the question and the value of one's present life. The lower the value of either, the more easily one can answer "yes." Conversely, if one places a high value on either one's previous period of life or one's present life, the answer is likely to be "no." Of course, the simple answer to all of the questions Bach asks is, It is what it is.