So Then What? (Entonces
que?)
A
wonderful little story to help those extranjeros (strangers or foreigners)
understand the Baja way of life.
A Gringo
(generally meaning an American) is walking down the beach and comes across a
Baja fisherman lying in the shade next to his panga ( small open boats)
retired with a cerveza , before mid day. The Gringo asks the Baja fisherman
“Why aren’t you out there fishing?” He continues with “You could be out there
fishing longer, and make more money.”
The Baja
fisherman replies “So then what?”
The
Gringo in dismay replies “Then you could even hire an employee and the both
of you could fish and make
even more money.”
The Baja
fisherman replies “So then what?”
The
Gringo once again has the answer. “You can then buy another panga and have
two boats with two fishermen making a whole lot more money.”
The Baja
fisherman replies once again “So then what?”
The
Gringo has his final vision and replies “Well then you can hire employees to
do all the work and then sit back here on the beach and drink beer all you
want!
The Baja
Fisherman in final reply, takes another swig of his cerveza and offers one to
the Gringo.
Many of
you may have already heard versions of this but if you haven’t I hope you
enjoy and reflect on it for a moment. I thought it a great way to better
understand the seemingly lack of desire to aggressively to “get ahead”, that
people from other more modern lifestyles are trained to do. Give it some
thought as you kick back under a palapa (if you don’t know what that is you
need to get to Mexico bad) with a cold one and listen to the
breeze in the palms.
That’s a
great idea. I’m headed back to the hammock, Jaime
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