Get Moving

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers
(Thank you Bruce)
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Truly one of the great dangers of life is complacency.

"Well, now I've got everything just the way I want it. Now I can relax." Oh, yeah? What's that rumbling in the distance?

"I fixed those drain pipes last year, there won't be any more water on the back porch." (Rumble, rumble)

"I can handle these mortgage payments with my new job. No problem." (Rumble)

"My college education is all paid for." "I get all the news in the morning over breakfast. That's all I need." "My daughter's new boy friend is a great guy. I trust him." "Why bother with snow tires on the car. They say it's going to be a mild winter." "I've got a great health insurance plan if anything should happen." "My brother is a stock broker. He handles all my investments." "The case will never go to court." "Now that I'm retired I'm going to take it easy." (Rumble, rumble, rumble.) There's a locomotive heading down the track and you are right in the way.

Life is unfinished business. There is always something to do. The joy of life is to see what has to be done, do it and then say "what's next?" Take it from me, retirement is not the bucket of fluff some people think it is. The challenges don't end. The tears don't stop. The laughter goes on. And the joy of living lasts, as long as we don't sit calmly in our complacent rocking chair and wait for the end.

"Hey, you, on the right track. Get moving!"

DB - The Vagabond
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AUTUMN QUESTION

(This is not a contest.)

At what event of the past do you wish you could be present? Why?

Only 8 responses so far.

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Thank you.
DB
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