myredracer wrote:
CavemanCharlie wrote:
Want to retire ? Sure. Going to be able to retire? No. Never was smart enough to go to college and in this day and age most of us working class people will never be able to retire. 
At least not completely. 
For my retirement party I was planning on a funeral. 
P.S. I didn't real all 11 pages of this thread.
You know, it's not about what you have and *look* like what you have from the outside, it's about having a close & loving family and circle of good friends.  Hopefully you are one of these lucky ones because in reality, not everyone has what counts the most. It's about what you make of what you have and what others take away from it.
And I would like to think I will be one of the lucky ones. 
There was a Star Trek movie where Capt Picard made a quote at the end of the movie that goes something like "What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived".