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Whoever said that no one's tombstone will read, I wish I could have worked one more day, never met my dad. I was laughing with my brother about this yesterday, and we were saying he literally would have had that put on his tombstone if he would have thought of it. That dude loved to work. He worked seven days a week until he retired, then he started a business, worked seven days a week in that business, and he was just thrilled to be working every day. And that was cool for him, like, you know, whatever. But the thing I learned from watching him do that, I didn't know it then, I learned it later once I had retired, is that he just never learned how to retire. He never learned that there's another way. He couldn't figure out how to just sit still and enjoy being alive. He had to be going, producing, solving problems. And I don't... I don't hold it against people who do that, because not everybody, and I've said this in other posts, not everybody's down for the sort of emotional journey that you have to go on to get to a place where you can just sit and be cool with it. And for those people, it's probably better that they just keep working. Because, you know, you don't want people to be unhappy. So if somebody can't or won't put in that work to get to a place where they can just relax, and enjoy their remaining years in comfort, then working probably is the best thing for them. My dad was the least introspective dude I've ever known, literally. He never once, like, reflected on his thoughts or actions. He was a good guy, don't get me wrong, but he was not introspective. So he would have never gotten to a place where he could have enjoyed retirement. He never learned to retire, and he would have never learned to retire. He worked right up until... he had a health episode that put him in the hospital, and then it was, you know, end of story from there. And that's exactly how he would have had it. So, don't tell me nobody ever would have said, I wish I could have worked one day on their deathbed, because he literally would have worked one more day if he could have.