[panini]

Kpfs,
That's so true too. But a few traumas in your life will fix that for sure.

[kokopuffs]

My mother's death affected me deeply. Myself, I'm a bit lacksadaisical about pursuing a career 24/7. My late mother worked like a dog all of her life and saved her money only to contract cancer a year after I left for college. She died a year later. Obviously her diligence wasn't worth the effort.

I know too many people who saved for retirement only to pass within a short while following retirement. Time to smell the roses along the way.

[panini]

kokopuffs,
I'm sorry if I brought that out and I'm sorry for you. I often mention this to people in our industry. It's so easy to get rutted.
My wife and I are both cancer survivers and one thing we have learned is to prioritize. We smell those roses everyday.
Infact today we met with my financial guy who is worried about the contract we just put on a house. He's new for us and we just let him go through the shpiel about the importance of our retirement and that extending ourselved today my shorten our funds for the future. We just smiled at each other and told him we were happy to be in his office today so that he could do all that worrying for us.
Ya know, we meet very few people that seem to be living for today. Everyone is so wrapped up in making their family or children little corporations. I'm not implying that one should be frivolous but I for one know koko is right on the money.