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Thursday May 11, 2000
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enough Had enough? Got enough? Seen enough? Seems like that this message from a lot of people these days. Me? I'm a happy camper. If FFP stays with the program of relaxing a little bit, I'm going to have a great time. Getting ready for the conference next week. They are really trying when you have to give presentations, talk to customers, go to evening events, try to pay attention to lots of things and people for many hours a day. I ate lunch at the new Granite. Had a very nice warm spinach salad with a beef tender. My parents are getting weary of getting ready to move. I understand. But it will soon be done. I will be so much more comfortable with them close by. If my seller's builder will just finish then we can close their new house, close their old house, move them. I can't imagine having to move myself. (I should get rid of some of this stuff!) Before I know it, someone will come around and say, "You are old. You have to move out of this house. Whoa! What's in THIS closet?" Everybody is where they are due to choices and chance. And, if you have the means or guts, you can be someplace else. A guy with some means runs for City Council. Everyone jokes with him about being able to afford his house on the salary. I wouldn't sit through the meetings for anything. Especially not at the council table. People leave their high tech jobs, adding up what's in the bank and figuring why take the grief a moment longer. Other folks lumber along with negative net worths and no chance for ease. And a bunch of people are in between, they keep going on, working because they don't really know how long they'll live, how much those kids will cost them. But there sure are lots of people rethinking things. My opinion is that you first have to figure out where you are happy and then you can go to that place. Even if you keep working. Oddly, I think I'm in that place. I may figure out how to retire at some point. Maybe I'll work until I'm a hundred. Money, of course, really does help one over a lot of humps. I've been down to a few bucks, had a little more, had enough to not worry so much. Giving it away is incrediby fun. I imagine having enough to really make a difference. That would be cool. Not worrying about the cost of what you need is a good thing. Not worrying about the cost of what you want is a better thing. But most people never even get to dabble in this territory. I've dabbled with the good end end, struggled at the bottom. |
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"I hope someday I have enough money to enjoy economizing." Dawn Powell, The Diaries of Dawn Powell |
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