I saw something recently, it really struck a cord with me, or maybe a reality check
It was youtube video, this fella is a retirement planner for people in the US
Anyway the guts of the video was, he asked his 80 year old clients what the regretted not doing or doing at different times in their lives
The biggest regret by far was (as I understood it) was people not seeing that in their 50's they, by and large have it all, let me explain
From the time we start work as a young bloke we can work 20 hours a day 7 days a week and never get tired
This is very handy as we are generally struggling to get a foot hold in life
In this time frame we can make good money by working long hours, we have our health but we don't have enough spare time to enjoy the fruits of our labour's
Most of us apparently find that by our 50's we are now smart enough and capable enough that we don't still need to work these long hours, yet apparently by this stage, that is what we know works so we keep on working
Our health is generally really good still, we can make good money and still work long hours
What we don't seem to see coming is that this good health only lasts maybe another 10 years and starts to slowly go down hill before accelerating until we pop our clogs and the journey is over
These 80 year olds, by and large regret working to hard, for to long and not winding back on the work front and winding up on the enjoying of life and enjoying the fruits of labour's
Our health and the ability to just do and enjoy things apparently goes pretty quickly and catches unaware
I say to people
When I was a kid at school
hours took days
days took weeks
weeks took months
months took years
I think we all remember those summers that went on for ever
These days
years are gone in months
months are gone in a week
weeks are gone days
Anyway Larry we have completely ran this thread off into the side cut
But reading comments above, it sort of confirms what this video was saying
Enjoy every moment as best as we can
Paul