I was recently asked if I could go to paradise and forget about everything, stop thinking about my problems and simply enjoy the rest of my days, would I do it. My answer to this was there is no paradise. And, yes, I know the question was a fictional hypothetical one, however, the reason I responded with such cynicism is because paradise is where you make it. If you took the above option it would not be long before you began to question "why?" or desire something that is not there. That is not to say that desire is bad, but it leaves you feeling empty and craving. Craving, not to sound like a Buddhist, is the beginning of your problems; you crave for something to be different or to have this or that. Perhaps you will crave more coconuts or you will crave a new woman dressed in banana leaves each morning. Let's even say that you have everything you wanted and every desire is fulfilled, how long do you think it would take before you began to crave a different environment? How long before you wanted some excitement. The only way to get that excitement is to do something that you haven't done before and you can only do that with something you don't have or by going to a place you've never been. Soon you would ask, what if you could go to paradise?