Retirement is the time of life when it is impossible not to
look back and ask, “What was it all about?”
A career touches the lives of many people through the years;
each one taking away some small part of us that touched them.
Raising a family may seem pale compared to that. The hours are long, the salary way below
minimum wage, the glory usually relegated to small moments like soccer games
and piano recitals with the occasional graduation from one school or another.
These seemingly simple moments spent with our children create the environmental,
political and cultural future of the world.
A mother, or father, changes history by being there for the small every
day things that carve out people with bedrock integrity and creativity.
No gold watch, or 401K will ever compare with the
satisfaction of looking at our own children and grandchildren and their
children and knowing we had a hand in making them who they are.
Nurturing, loving, educating, inspiring – that never
ends.
I think that’s what it’s all about.
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