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Originally Posted by Sliver
I always look at Wal-Mart greeters or old people working beyond when they want to be and wonder what their spending/savings/working habits were when younger.
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I know several renowned, highly respected musicians that got too old to keep playing and have had to take up positions like these. They got to live an insanely exciting life/lifestyle doing what they loved the most, bringing incalculable joy to an incalculable amount of people.
Time catches up with everyone, but at least they're still out there among the people, rather than sitting in an ivory tower counting their beans and the days down to their next geriatric vacation, which is likely taking a plane somewhere to sit in a different ivory tower.
You're judging people harshly, simply because without any evidence or knowledge of the situation you're perceiving that their values aren't the same as yours, and thus inferior, and thus they're inferior. You really do seem like the kind of guy who's going to be on his deathbed and will indeed actually say "I wish I'd made more money."
I, for one, would happily spend my geriatric years greeting at Wal-Mart if I got to have the life, lifestyle, and spiritual impact some of my heroes have had. I don't think you understand the "work habits" they had when they were younger to be in a position to do this (practice practice practice, and mountains of courage and determination) and how they couldn't care less what a complete square thinks of them.