You Define Your Paradise!

February 11th, 2011

In a little village in coastal Mexico, a vacationing businessman sat watching the small boat glide quietly to its dock. It was mid- morning and pleasantly warm.

“Any luck?’, he queried the solitary captain. “Si, Amigo, the fishing it is very good here, and so it has been a fine day for me” said the man.

“How many more times will you go out today?”

“No more- just this one time, Senor… I have caught my fish. Now I will sell them, go home to have lunch with my family, play with my dog, play with my children, play with my wife, enjoy a good sleep. Tomorrow morning I will be up early to do all this again. It is always so”.

“But if you go back out today you will have more fish to sell. You will make more money and could hire men to help you fish. Soon, you could buy another fishing boat, then more fishing boats until you have a fleet and many workers. You could have boats out all day long and even at night. You could become very rich!”

“And so, I would have much money to spend in any way I wanted, yes? I could then do anything I wanted to do?”

“Yes, now you understand! Anything you wanted to do!”

“Ah then, amigo, I would choose to be home for lunch with my family, play with my dog, play with my children, play with my wife, enjoy a good sleep…”