Another Lesson From Hawaii

As Debbie and I were driving back to our hotel we stopped in the front yard of a Tahitian man married to a local Hawaiian girl. There he had a barbeque set up that looked like sort of a Polynesian tailgate party. He was serving a traditional Hawaiian plate lunch, which is pork, fish, or shrimp, combined with rice, cabbage salad and macaroni salad. He charged 10 dollars a plate and told me he served 50 to 150 lunches a day. He said, “I just serve until I run out of food. There are always people to eat.” He lives a few hundred yards from the beach in a modest, but clean home where he runs his daily tail gate barbeque and provides for his family. Yes, I know in many parts of the country you couldn’t be licensed to do such a thing. But, the point is that if you have a mind to, you can live almost anywhere, and doing almost anything to build a great life. The way my Tahitian friend is Saving the World is that he is absolutely amazingly great at what he does. He also has an enormous smile, a welcoming attitude, and conversation for anybody who comes by. He is not a selfish man either. If anybody is hungry and doesn’t have the money he always has a snack. The point is we don’t need the world to change for our life to. If you can create this kind of life in a place where there are no jobs and no business, only beauty, your best life is still awaiting you.