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My grandmother was a wonderful person.

She taught me how to play Monopoly.

She understood that the name of the game is to acquire.

She would accumulate everything she could and

eventually, she became the master of the board.

And then she always used to say the same thing to me.

She looked at me and she said

“One day, you'll learn to play the game.”

One summer I played Monopoly almost every day, the whole day;

and that summer, I learned to play the game.

I came to understand that money and possessions...

that's the way that you keep score.

And by the end of that summer

I was more ruthless than my grandmother.

I took everything she had.

I saw her

give her last dollar and quit in utter defeat.

And then she had one more thing to teach me.

Then she said:

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“Now all it goes back in the box.

All those houses and hotels.

All the railroads and utility companies...

Now it all goes back in the box.

None of it was really yours.

You got all heated up about it for a while.

But this was around a long time before you sat down at the board.

and it will be here after you're gone - players come - players go.

Houses and cars...

Titles and clothes...

Even your body.”

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So you have to ask yourself

when you have made the ultimate purchase

when you buy the ultimate home

and climbed the ladder of success to the

highest rung you can maybe climb it...

and the thrill wears off

Then what?