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    The Meaning of Life
    by Cukey Sapodillo

    The American businessman was at an outdoor fresh food market at a coastal Costa Rican farm village when a small truck with filled with boxes of fruit pulled up. The American complimented the driver on the quality of his fruit and asked how long it took to pick it all. The Costa Rican farmer replied, only a little while. The American then asked why didn't he pick more fruit? The Mexican said he had enough to support his family's immediate needs. The American then asked, but what do you do with the rest of your time? The Costa Rican farmer said, "I sleep late, tend to the orchard, pick fruit, have lunch, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening and play guitar with my amigos, I have a full and busy life, seƱor."

    The American scoffed, "I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should pick more fruit, plant more trees, spend more time farming and with the proceeds, buy a bigger orchard, and with the proceeds from the bigger orchard you could buy several orchards. Eventually you would have a fleet of trucks. Instead of selling your harvest at fruit stalls in small villages you would sell directly to city markets, and eventually open your own fruit exporting business. You would control the product and distribution."

    "You would need to hire orchard and distribution managers, leave this small coastal village and move to San Jose, then Mexico City, then Los Angles, then New York City where you will run your expanding enterprise."

    The Costa Rican farmer asked, "But seƱor, how long will this all take?"

    To which the American replied, "15-20 years."

    "But what then, seƱor?"

    The American laughed and said: "That's the best part. When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions."

    "Millions, seƱor? Then what?"

    The American said, "Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal farming village where you would sleep late, tend to your orchard, pick fruit, have lunch, play with your grandchildren, take siestas with your wife, stroll into the village each evening and play guitar with your amigos.


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    Is this fictional person Mexican or Costa Rican? See paragraph 1.
    Text above by RYAN was Ā« Last Edit: Today at 08:02:29am by RYAN Ā»

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    When I first saw this story months ago, it was a Mexican fisherman instead of a Costa Rican farmer. Perhaps someone along the line changed the story because they wanted raw vegetables instead of fish but didn't do a thorough job of changing all the details.

    It is a rather charming story. I liked it a lot.

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    i'm not sure, maybe a mexican living in Costa Rica!

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