Clarification

I didn't mean to send the wrong message with my last post to the blog. I read that book "3 Cups of tea" and I was inspired by how the guy in the book made it his mission to build schools for girls in Pakastan. he had been in the area to Mtn Clim and he missed the mtn he hoped to ascent (K2). But he turned his life into a mission to make the world a better place, starting there. Despite the politics of the Iraq war and Afghanistan, I think it is a noble thing to identify a cause in that tough part of the world and help the real people. The girls deserve schools, advancement, a chance to change their future. Indeed that is why our Army is over there fighting-to bring freedom and democracy to that part of the world. Education will go a long way to achieve those ends. At the back of the book he points out that a penny buys a pencil and a $1 buys a teacher. I just want some of my hard earned money to go there instead of Fidelity Investments. I feel sure that Holly and I will have enough to retire on. Our needs are simple. We aren't clothes hounds or big gear heads (even if we were, it's not like drugs or mid-life crisis cars).

So I wasn't trying to be pessimistic. Just realistic that I might not live to see all those $$$ squandered away for later. And who knows much of it may go to the treatment at hand-also a useful outlet for those yrs of saving. Because just as they say, you can't take it with you. ;-)