The Man And His Sunsets

"There are just sometimes in life where you just have to sit back relax and enjoy the view". That was what a man was saying on a hot and sunny evening when he was sitting back watching the sunset, he was drinking a beer and talking to his son and just feeling really good about himself. Charlie, who was in his sixties now, wasn't always so optimistic he was at one time an accountant and used to just chase the finer things in life, he didn't consider himself successful if he didn't buy a new car every five years, now he didn't feel that way anymore. See Charlie was fired from his job because he just got fed up with it all, he walked in the office one day and told his boss, "Your a hypocritical dictator, who's only joy was making other people miserable so take this job and shove it up the tail pipe" and the only reason he said that was because the day before, his boss gave him six new accounts and hadn't paid him his salary for two months. Charlie wasn't poor though he was smart with his money he had over a million in the bank after he got done selling his house, pontoon boat, and stock he had accumulated over the years and now he lives on the two hundred grand that would be the interests in the bank account. Charlie gave it all up on a whim one day when his wife Polly said to him, "Charlie I never see you anymore the boys never see you anymore and this can't go on, do something to change it all or I'm going to get a divorce". Well that put Charlie in a depressed mood though most men would go into anger what she said frightened him to the point that he said goodbye to all that really didn't matter. Did his job matter, no, did the boat matter, no, he could buy a small bass boat for him and his boys, did the house matter with it's lavish comforts and it's thirty rooms, no, they could get a smaller house to live in. He knew he wouldn't have to worry about money because the interest alone could pay the college when it was time, and they would still have enough to spare. He could take his wife anywhere she wanted to go, he could take his boys fishing and camping just like his father did him, the only reason he worked was to make more money that he knew he didn't really need. Charlie looked at his son and said, "Do you know the secret to life son?" The man staring back at his father was in his thirties now said, "No, what is the secret to life, Dad?" "The secret to life is knowing when you have enough and letting the excess go, taking everything in as it comes and enjoying beautiful wonders like that sunset." "I'll not forget that Dad." "Good boy, now pass me another beer".