How to Live Your Golden Years

I’ve never been a proponent of the hedonist philosophy that you should live each day as if it is your last. I am however recently tempted by the variation: live one day at a time.

I worry a lot, which was keeping me awake a few nights ago. Then it came to me, like a personal revelation, that what I was worrying about might not happen tomorrow and that, whenever it did happen, I should deal with it then.

I’ve lived most of my life preparing for tomorrow. Among other things, it’s given me economic security in retirement.

Maybe that's why I decided it was time to stop focussing on the future and, as they say, smell the roses if they bloom today and not worry about whether they’ll be there to smell tomorrow.