Is Your Someday Here?

If you remember 1965 as clearly as I do, then you have most likely lived more years than you have left.

I'm hopeful of living to be 125 years old in this incarnation, but any insurance company would be happy to take that bet.

Despite knowing this intellectually, many of us continue to act as if we will never make our transition to the next level of reality or, for atheists, non-existence.

If you're in your twenties or thirties, saying you'll go to Europe or Australia "someday" is logical.

 

You probably need to focus on building your career, buying a home and raising a family.  I remember those days quite well, and I had a lot of fun taking my family for weekend campouts.

 

A cruise to Mexico or the Caribbean might be more within your immediate grasp, and they're certainly fantastic trips that can be enjoyed repeatedly.

 

And by the way, if you prefer returning to your favorite places or enjoying the comforts of your home town, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, so long as that is your choice, not simply lethargy.

However, once you're looking back fifty years and remembering 1965 like it was yesterday (or scarier still, not remembering many details other than assuming you must have been there based on your date of birth), you need to realize that "someday" has arrived.  The question is, what are you going to do now that you're here?

You should be like my friend Logan, a retired professor who started booking with me after his first wife passed away. 

He had raised his family and also traveled extensively.  After his wife passed away, he eventually decided to venture out again into the world.  I'm blessed that he chose to work with me in his later years.  He has been booking a cruise or vacation package every year since we met.

On the first cruise he booked with me, a European cruise on Holland America, he met a woman named Mary, whom he soon married and took on a honeymoon cruise on Holland America the next summer.

He often takes Mary, a retired school teacher who didn't travel much during her working years, to special places he enjoyed visiting decades earlier, including Japan for cherry blossom time and New England for the changing of the leaves.

He found great happiness in taking Mary's sister, an octogenarian who had always dreamed of going to Hawaii, with them on a Princess Hawaiian Islands cruise roundtiip from Los Angeles. 


On his European cruises, he frequently revisits old favorites but also enjoys new ports.

Almost exactly one year ago, Logan booked a river cruise for September of 2015 for he and Mary, both now in their nineties, so that they had time to save the money to go comfortably.

Living your dreams doesn't mean wiping out your retirement account on a whim, but rather planning your life and budget to include travel to places you've always wanted to go or to share favorite places with loved ones. 

Maybe you need to remember 1965, and recapture those dreams of youth.  If you don't live the life of your dreams, who will?

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