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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend.... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neeka who wrote (34323)	5/19/2010 3:42:44 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

BTW, I have some regret about my previous post to you. I'm no paragon of the no regrets/fill that Bucket List early & often crowd. Fate had a big hand in molding my views on those 2 things. Even so I wasn't perfect by any means. There still were regrets. And fate intervened on filling my Bucket List. I'm just glad I did the things I was able to do. I'm so sorry you & your dad didn't get to realize your shared dream. That's an unfortunate downside of putting off certain dreams until after retirement. That was precisely what helped me decide to live my life differently. Long story short; I married my high school sweetheart. I was 15 when I started dating her. Her parents put off several big dreams until the post retirement years. That impacted me a lot. I thought they were taking too much risk when the future is so uncertain [they were putting off a lot of things today for their retirement years].* My wife & I both tried to get them to get them to do more before retirement with only limited success. Unfortunately, shortly after they began to do so, my mother-in-law was diagnosed with Cardiomyopathy, which was a huge game changer in their lives. They had only just begun to complete their Bucket list. The long, debilitating illness forced them to alter everything for the rest of her life. Not long after she passed on my father-in-law was diagnosed with a cancer that affected his nervous system. That too was the ultimate game changer that ended up with him eventually being bed ridden & less coherent every day. Then my dad started down that same road..... Each instance only strengthened my resolve regarding no regrets/fill that Bucket List early & often. I owe them a lot for making my life much fuller & complete than it otherwise might have been. * Bottom line. You only get one chance at life. There is no reset button if fate changes your plans. God only knows what the next minute will bring you. While it's great to live as though you will have a healthy, financially secure retirement, you should ballance that with living a little every as if it were your last.