[Shotimes] RE: OT (but what isn't anymore?) my dinner

[Steve Tatro]

We could probably aruge this 'til we're blue in the face.  I've seen you
do it on the list before ;^)

I'll just reply by reminding you that I didn't advise anyone to
sacrifice all happiness to prolong one's life.  Just to use some common
sense.  That's what seems to be lacking from a lot of peoples'
vocabularies these days!

Later, and good luck with that house in Florida.  You know we could all
get together and push it over to the beach!

Steve Tatro
Red/Black '93 with 165k miles
Cincinnati, Ohio



-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Ron Nottingham
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 9:26 AM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] RE: OT (but what isn't anymore?) my dinner


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Tatro" <stevetatro_shotimes@att.net>


> Sure, you say that now.  But, what if the 10 years you reduce your 
> life by is the 10 years in which you could watch your grandchildren 
> grow up. Or the 10 years you could spend blowing the last bit of your 
> hard-earned money doing whatever you want.  Or the 10 years you could 
> spend relaxing in your beach house in Florida.
>

Already have the house in Florida, while not right on the beach, it's
maybe 3-400 feet from it :-)

Really, you could do all that healthy stuff (OK, I admit, I do eat
healthy, but I do indulge a few times), then walk outside and get hit by
a bus.  You only live life once, you don't get a "do over", or "extended
time", or anything like that.  The point being, no one is guaranteed 60
years, 70 years, or 80 years, heck, even 20 years.  I've known people
who spent their lives saving, doing the "healthy" thing, etc., to do
some of the stuff you mentioned, but what "life" they had working for
that "final 10 years" of doing what they want was never realized.  The
future IS important, but so is today, one must learn to balance the
"living for today" with the "living for tomorrow".

Take this advice from someone that literally was within 1/8th of an inch
of losing his life.  Long story short, when I was 16, a bottle rocket
misfired, hit my eye, bounced out then exploded.  Ended my pilot career
(already had my appointment to the Air Force Academy, BEFORE my senior
year of high school), and left me blind in one eye.

Ron N. - Dalton, GA
90 SHO
"It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile"
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