06/03/2023
The statistics are grim. by age 60, 1 out of 4 American men will die before reaching age 80. If I reach 65, my chances of making it to age 80 are only 62%. I don’t have close friends anymore. I have a social circle, but we all struggle to make time to be together. But if I look around me at 3 friends I see most often, one of us will probably be dead in the next 20 years. So it makes sense that age 60 is when I have to decide to stop waiting. I have to do what I want and need to do. But what is that?
I am still working. I support a small family, my wife, second child, and still occasionally help my oldest son financially. Any radical change in my lifestyle will have to wait at least a few years. Each summer, my wife and I take at least a month off to travel. During Covid, we restricted this to local California spots, then Hawaii. Now its 2023, and it seems like all travel is double the price it was, certainly airfares are.
You know those moments where a voice is telling you, “I really need to be doing something else.” That voice gets louder and more frequent the longer you deny it. At age 60, its screaming at me. So what is it I really want and need to do?
What are you doing with your last 20 years? Comment your ideas, your plans. Midnight is sooner than we think.
