“ The funny thing was that there weren’t many people on this magnificent beach. There were...

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The funny thing was that there weren’t many people on this magnificent beach. There were mostly poor people with rather a lot of children, or black people who were generally quite young. Hector understood that in this country rich people were either too busy to go to the beach because they worked a lot or they preferred the nice clean water in their swimming pools or Jacuzzis, or they weren’t too keen on mixing with poor people, but this of course was true in all countries.

So, the poor people had this huge beach all to themselves, free of charge, and they had fun playing volleyball, drinking beer, picking up girls, and they seemed quite happy, because here on the beach they could forget about the people who were richer than them, who had nice cars, nice houses and expensive lawyers.

Hector put on his sunglasses and wrote:

Lesson no. 19: The sun and the sea make everybody happy.

And he told himself that if one day he became really poor, he would seek refuge in a sunny city by the sea and in a poor country so that he would feel less poor. (Remember lesson no. 1: Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.)
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