Bust – or Boom?

Even the day we graduated college my friend Rodney was feverishly reading books and learning everything he could about the Internet.

Rodney’s dream was to be rich. Period. He refused to accept anything else. And he had heroes, like James Schramko. I laughed. What a dreamer.

I went on to become a corporate recruiter, buy a condo, and settle down in south Florida.

Not long ago I ran into Rodney, strolling along a dock barefoot, wearing a worn tee shirt, shorts, and a straw hat. “So,” I giggled, “still working on becoming a millionaire?”

“Nope”, he replied. I started really laughing. “Why not, pray tell?”, I managed.

“Because I already am one”, came the reply. “This is my dock, my boat….and that’s my island over there.”

I stopped laughing.