The best way is to live life is in moderation or as a Buddhist would say, taking the "middle path". Often times it is good to save your money and not be a spendthrift but if you are too cheap then you can cause even more troubles for you and those around you. In Eugene O'Neil's play write Long Day's Journey Into Night the character James Tyrone has shown that he has taken the extreme …showed first 75 words of 613 total…

…showed last 75 words of 613 total…is in their hopeless situation but is without a doubt the one of the biggest if not the biggest reason for why Mary is a morphine addict, Jamie is a lazy drunk who has nothing going for him and Edmund is dying without proper treatment of his consumption and why all they can ever do now is drink fight and complain about what could have been. Tyrone's actions have been the downfall of his family.