(03-21-2022, 10:00 AM)beechnut79 Wrote:(03-21-2022, 08:13 AM)sbarrera Wrote: And I am 55. I hope I can enjoy a long period of retirement and focus on personal projects and not have to worry so much about income. Hopefully my stepchildren will be in good shape financially and will be there for support when I get very old.
That is a worry because I chose to remain single and childless as did Eric, one of the stalwarts on this board. Came of age at a time when money wasn't nearly as big an issue as it is today. We were the crowd that often tended to throw responsibility to the wind. Today it seems that many if not most of us have become responsibility freaks. Very few seem to miss those freer, more swinging times gone by. I happen to be one of those who does.
I get nostalgic for the freer times, too. I didn't think about the future or have a care in the world through my 20s and 30s. But time is relentless, the true master of us all.
Steve Barrera
[A]lthough one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation. - Hagakure
Saecular Pages
[A]lthough one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation. - Hagakure
Saecular Pages