It’s crucial to realize: Reaping isn’t a final destination. And by the time he’d reached his late sixties, Marshall felt it viscerally. “You can’t ever be happy in life with a thing that used to be,” he says. “[People will say] ‘I used to be the CEO, I used to be the football star.’ And what happens is, when the profession disappears, our identity disappears. We have no identity.” Reaping has an expiration date: you have to create something new and start again.
