Live dangerously -- think!

There is nothing quite like waking up in the morning and thinking, "What shall I do today?"

You feel competent, alive, energetic and ready to enjoy your life your way.

You are not waiting for someone to tell you what to do, or how to do it, or what to feel as it gets done.

Even if you make mistakes -- and you will -- you know you can learn from them so they won't be repeated. Figuring these things out makes you feel good about yourself -- competent -- alive!

In the best of all worlds children are allowed to make mistakes so they learn this early, but it's never too late. Even in your sixties you still have time to grab the reins and become a strong, autonomous human being.  One who has friends, but not caretakers.

A caretaker helps you out all the time, because they don't really believe you are competent enough to do it on your own.  That's not the gift you might believe it is.  The few dollars it saves you here and there costs tons in self respect, privacy and freedom.

Growing older is dangerous when you believe you need to be taken care of.  You stop believing in yourself and become a candidate for being put on a nice safe shelf where you can sit until you die.

That's no fun at all.