dfddddddd wrote:
UK Limey runner wrote:"I wish I had spent more time at work."
Said no man on his deathbed ever.
No, but I'm sure plenty of people had thought the following:
- I wish I could have traveled more
- I wish I could have paid for my kids college education
- I wish I could have raised my kids in a better neighborhood
- I wish I could have spent more nice nights out with my wife
Money is not an end all, be all... but it allows for a lot of nice things in life. A lot of them aren't superficial.
I forget who said "I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better." I wouldn't argue.
But most people by far don't get rich even if they start their careers at 22 and rather than delaying them for a few years so they can run seriously, ski, play minor league baseball, hitch hike around the world or whatever. There are all sorts of stories in the media now about the really large number of Americans who are not very far from retirement age but who don't have enough money to retire. How many of them do you really think are in that boat because they worked part time twenty some years ago so they could run 120 mile weeks?
Most people kind of squeak by financially. If that's what I'm going to do it might make sense for me to arrange my life so that I enjoy as much of it as I can rather than pass up things I like doing in the potentially futile hope that doing so will have me rolling in dough at some distant future time.