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Message: <blockquote data-quote="db-2" data-source="post: 313574" data-attributes="member: 4743">We all have those ups and downs and sometimes i feel we have more than our share of downs.  However that is not true and overall i feel we have had a fair amount of ups.  Just that life deals different cards to each of us.At age 50 the wife and i started all over (long story). Sold house for 50000 less than we had into it. I felt little hope going forward but started working for the right employer who trusted me and ask me to run his company for him.  I had excellent people to work with and we all did well.  Over the next 23 years was able to build enough to hopefully live to be a 100.Yes Jaykay the kids grow up to quick and now the grandkids are growing up to quick.  So as you stated make sure one understands what is important and what is not and make the most of it.  Live it to its fullest and that is the why i started this topic, that in the end, when at one time i had little hope for the future it does work out if one works at it, the memories are important so make them good ones to override the crabby ones, the retirement will be good with a whole bunch of new memories to make.  DB- - - Updated - - -Johnr:It was different times for you and me back then.  Our values were stronger and least the ladies would say no back then.  I think they have change the most of all over the years.  No drugs, just beer, and beer can not hurt one (well at least when one could only drink maybe 3-4 beers before one got sick and the ladies did not like it when i would throw up, in fact they would leave.Maybe there were the riots over race and the war back in my youth along with all the other things, just did not notice them and no 7-24 news beating that into my life every day, only on Walter Cronkite 5:30 news for a half hour.  No cell phones or internet.  No do-gooders telling me what is best for me.  I feel it was simpler for us back then than for the youth today.  At least i did not have all the problems in my life that they seem to have now.  Maybe growing up on a farm and building haystacks with a pitch fork and loading rocks on a stone boat had something to do with it.  Rock and roll, back then one could understand the words and the songs were positive (but country stays the same with the dog that dies and the women finds someone else, PU truck is stolen and so forth).  And yes, i believe, beer does affect one different than what drugs do.  Found that out in SE Asia.So yes, it does concern me and that is why we brought our kids up the way we did and we both try to influence our grand kids with what we feel is important for them to know.  My one grandson told his teacher that the democrats are bad because that is what grandpa told him, so it is working.  At that point i understand the teacher had a problem but that was her problem to work out.  Told the grandson that to. (but his mother also inform him about grandpa)As i look at my own kids and grandkids i am comfortable.  I am sure not one of them would knee and do understand.  Hope and do trust them for the best and will continue to influence with our values.  db</blockquote>

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