GGs
Great-Grandchildren. GGs are the benchmark.
I have three. Got a new GG Zeke this Father's Day, in fact. If you can achieve GGs, you feel as though you have loved, lived, lasted, and done your part.
Children teach you what you are here for. Grandchildren teach you what you have accomplished. Great-grandchildren teach you why you must be ready to step aside. My high ambition now is to last long enough to ride my Indian motorcycle out to Utah 21 years from now, share a cigar and a beer with little Zeke and his cousin Oliver, and beat them both in a game of handball. Then I'll be ready to step aside and let them have the place for themselves.
The picture upload here sucks donkey dongs... otherwise I'd show you pics.
Unmitigated risk aversion is the new Puritanism; complete with witch hunts funny outfits and humorless preachers thundering doom. The Deity is Safety; Satan is a Lawyer; but the object is the same: to suck the life out of life and tell you how to live it.
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