STRATEGY © Mike Lee I’ve been my own worst enemy for almost my whole life; living “high-on-the-hog” extravagantly, not saving one thin dime. I spent all, wasted it, and now in looking back I wonder why I lived as though I wouldn’t see this day, this age. It was as though I lived a fantasy of ‘here and now’ as though there was no future. But the here and now is that; I’m in the future and just barely so, for I made no provision for this time of life. I find now that life’s quality is what would have been then stark poverty. I will survive – just barely – thanks to generous friends who seem to care, but I’m not stupid. I’m a burden and I know it. Would that I could go back and confront myself – a young man – and could warn me of the future; that I need to take it serious and put something aside for that proverbial “rainy day” that turns out it’s old age. And at this point, it’s not just one day. It’s my entire life that’s left to struggle through it. Retrospect is way too late – I can’t go back – but I can only mourn that all my life I have been stupid, haven’t planned and I’ve let luck determine both my now and then. The end will not be pretty, but will come no matter what. If I had planned, it would not even matter. In the end it will be over and not luck at all.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 04:26:34 +0000
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