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Old 01-29-2012, 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by pauld315 View Post
This is the message I try to convey to my friends when they look at me funny because I am retiring from a very good job at 59 years old. I can now print this off and just hand it to them when they don't understand how I can do this and in the same sentence, tell them I am going to be moving to TV leaving my kids, friends and grandchildren behind. More and more often I see friends of mine's obituaries that never got the chance to experience the things discussed in your post. Thanks you so much.
Most of us have probably heard this before: "When a person is on his or her deathbed, no one says, gosh, I wish I had spent more time at work..."

One of my customers in South Africa has this tag line on her e-mails: "Life is not a rehearsal."