A fun thought experiment… Tom Greene pens a latter from his imaginary 80-year-old self to himself today.
Every observation is great.
Eight Observations After Eight Decades [Wit & Wisdom] – “We postponed a lot of things that never got done later. The things we said we’d get to “when things calmed down” quietly slipped through our fingers while we were busy doing life. We never took that cruise in the British Virgin Islands with friends. Sure, you saved the money and got a lot of work done at the office. But now that our health is slipping and friends are dying off, that extra money seems kinda pointless. We’d much rather have the memories and experiences. At this point I’m making plans to give that extra money away to a charity when we die.”