Baseball player Tim Wakefield just died of brain cancer at 53. His wife died of pancreatic cancer not long after.
The way I see it: When you consider the average life expectancy throughout the world, if you make it to 50, that's pretty decent. If you get to 60, good. If 70, great. If 80, remarkable. This is why I tell people, live your very best from 20-60. My neighbor, who's in his nineties, did say his 50s were his best years in most respects. Well, just don’t wait till you retire to travel, live overseas or get a little tail. You may not make it to retirement, and even if you do, it's not the same as your prime years. I think you and I, when it comes to travel, did something extraordinary in our younger years. No regrets.
- correspondence with friend
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