Words of a Wise Man

I was recalling my days as a lifeguard. There's this security guard I always speak to. I call him PeM.

At the age of sixty plus, I asked him how would he like to retire. He said that he would rather work till the day he dies. I was pretty surprised. Wouldn't he want to travel and see the world?

"What's after that?" he asked.

I told him that he can stay home and work on his hobbies or whatever he likes to do. PeM counts it as equal as waiting for death or waiting to be sick and die.

That surprised me also.

He explains thus, that a person is the most desperate and depressed is when he is sick and unable to do anything. He should be able bodied and work like the rest of the world.

What he said, changed me.