"Working on his second million"?

Attitude!?

 

 

Happy! Is a state-of-mind;

it really is simply about “Attitude!”.

 

Quite some years ago, now, I experienced a chance meeting

with an old man (he was younger then than I am now) who

taught me a valuable lesson. Early for our business appointment,

his wife had shown me to his den where I awaited his arrival

home from work. The room had apparently once been an outside

porch on the back of the abode now glassed-in overlooking

the Mississippi River from high atop a limestone bluff

offering quite some spectacular view to behold.

 

After a wait of about ten minutes, the “old” man made his appearance.

Introductions quickly concluded, he went to his bar and splashed three

fingers of amber spirits into a square cocktail tumbler giving me a look of

invitation to join him; I informed him that I did not imbibe. Never-the-less,

I nodded that he should go ahead and enjoy his liquid refreshment to which

consideration he toasted me in a silent salute, then consumed the entire

contents in several noisy gulps. Then, he smiled, pouring another.

 

Taking a seat opposite me, he said, surreptitiously, with a twinkle in his eye,

“You know, I’m working on my second million!”

 

I took another slow look around at the comfortable, but,

less than ostentatious furnishings of an obviously middle-

class citizen causing me to wonder what I had missed.

 

Caught in his little snare, the man smiled, then laughed

as though reading my thoughts, which he was doing.

 

“Yeah,” he began, “I could never make that First million---

so I gave up on it and went after my---Second million!”

 

He winked, raised his glass to me and drank of the amber warmth.

 

I laughed, politely, and nodded my approval of his little joke.

 

From that encounter, however, I took a valuable life-lesson:

Enjoy what you have, cherish life, be of Good attitude!

 

And, never forget:

Live! Love! Laugh!

Amen!