Squid Games and Money Heist

Two shows that produced an unusual thought in me. Both of these popular tv series speak of is the heady dream of winning or stealing an unspeakable amount of money.For both,the decision hinges on life and death. the moral cunundrums of life and death. Both shows had their characters mention that they would love to get away from "it' all and move to the Caribbean and live on a beach. I don't know where people get that fantasy from? Lol. Living in everyone's fantasy is a bizaar experience. Even we in the Caribbean dream of living on the beach. I remember in 2001 I went to Grand Riviere in Toco and there was a lady who did live on the said beach. She had dreadlocks down to her ankles and dressed in African garb and leather slippers and was tending to one of her many children while selling peppersauce from bottles that once held ketchup. She looked beautiful with her nose ring and little faux gold jewellery nestled into some of her locks. her half nail polished fingers wisened by age and hard work jooking washing on stones in the river. I don't know who feels that that life can somehow pay for the life that you really tell yourself you have to have, the life that includes a washer and dryer. I remember as well visiting Shitiping in Taiwan, a quaint little fishing village where again the people made you feel seduced by a simpler life. But across the road from them there was the inevitable development of high rised spectacular billion dollar 'beachfront' properties. Both the very rich and very poor had something in common, similar taste and good attitude. They were all very nice, kind, helpful. They let you into their home and told their story of hard work to own what they had. There is no perfect place where you go to forget about life. You are always inside life. I know of people who have inherited wealth, quite a few actually! There is nothing about their windfall that tells me that they are not as anxiety filled as anyone else. I think that you can always find your head above the water that literally represents your money, and your always bobbing and swimming and trying not to drown if you have miles of it or just a cup full of it. So it isn't about that. It is more about what is happiness really? It is fleeting. It is moment to moment and many times it cannot be bought. You can purchase many things that give you that buzz of the new, of the rare, of the ONLY for you status. Your on that beach in your hammock and you have beaten life at its game. Ok, but what next? I wonder how many of us can survive paradise?