To what metalgator said, yeah never know when your ticket is going to get punched.
My family, think I'm glad I'm adopted...... hasn't had but 1 member get over 70.
Dad clocked out for the last time at 58 hadn't retired, halfway thru building their dream home that they'd been planning forever and never was even well enough to help me build it, which was another dream of his....... Mom made it another 8 or 9 years, got to enjoy life on the lake in the dream home....by herself and made it to 67 I think.
I get caught up in saving $ and yes we are debt free thanks to my income, but it crosses my mind all the time and I'd pay the man to have fun now.
Guess I'd rather enjoy life when I am young and healthy enough. If I'm broke when I'm old and the best thing I can hope for each day is a bowel movement, so be it. Can't spend it then and I'm not saving up for a nursing home...... can't take it with you!
We're sort of in that boat with the wife's health. Kids are middle school age and idk how many years she has left. Puts a different perspective on it.