What a hoot! I just went on Linked In, and saw so many old fraternity brothers who are still working! Many are three years older than me! It makes me wonder... Surely, everyone has seen the movie, Platoon. Recall the scene, after the first firefight, when everyone is back at base camp? ONeill, Barnes, Elias, and others are playing poker in the tent when the lieutenant walks in. It might have been Johnny Depp who offered the lieutenant some Kentucky windage. Barnes, I think, asks the lieutenant to join in the game, and he says, No thanks, I dont want to get raped by YOU guys! Then I think it was Oneill who says, What are you doin there, LT? Saving up to be Jewish? What are those people thinking? That theyre going to live forever? How many cars do they need? How many square feet does their house have to be? Oh, are they going to travel the world when they retire? I need only look at past experience to see the fallacy of that. My dad was going to retire in one year, and lead the good life, when my mother had a stroke and spent the next 17 years half-paralyzed in a bed. I had an employee who didnt want to retire until she was 65. Her and her husband had tickets for a two month tour of Ireland and the British Isles. Her husband dropped dead within a week of her retirement date. I had another employee who dropped dead a month BEFORE he planned to retire. A fraternity brothers father died the DAY before he was supposed to retire. Ive been living the dream since I basically retired at age 50. No amount of money, no big house, and no fancy cars are worth the last thirteen years I got to spend with my wife. We shop wisely and eat like royalty, we watch movies, we have the orneriest, most loving hound to keep us happy, we still play the horses now and then, we cook together, we read, and we get to pursue our interests. What? I want to croak with $2 million in the bank? I went to six foreign countries and 33 states long before I needed a walker to do it. Thats the difference between living to work, and working to live afterward. youtu.be/O7B5jXYRy3Q
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 13:00:49 +0000
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