The $41,000 Man

Reminiscing on the eve of my 80th Birthday, I thought of the things that I used to do and can't and the things that I used to do and still can, but it takes much longer. My mind slipped over to the idea that I am worth much more now than I used to be. Now that doesn't mean that I my net worth financially is 32 times more than it was when I was in my twenties(as the rule of 72 would imply). But what it does mean is that the additions to my body have made me more valuable physically.

For instance, stainless steel knees in both legs($10,000), hearing devices in both ears($4,000), two by-passes in the heart($20,000)

cataract surgery($3,000), two teeth implants($4,000) and an undisclosed amount for Viagra and I am as good as I was when I was 20 years old.

So life does not begin at forty, it begins at eighty. After all, I am the President of the Sabian Publishing Society, an Elder in the Sabian Assembly, I write a blog reasonably frequently, a member of the West Chester Senior Center and I am giving a class in Astrology at the Second Reading II Bookstore.

Somewhere during the last forty years, I learned from Marc Jones on a quote from Aristotle that "a thing is what it does". So it got me to thinking that I should GOYA. This is another bit of advice that I got along the way when I decided to be a Financial Advisor. It stands for "Get off your ass." So I did. I repaired my body, got interested in things and now my ass is not sore anymore but my feet are from all the running around that I do....but then again Life Does Begin At 80.