Sunday, April 11, 2010

You Only Live Once


Two posts ago I talked about how I went to help make the Taft Butterfly Gardens.  That was yesterday.  Today I also wanted to knock off some of those hours so I asked around.  One of my friend's has connections at the HCC, so I decided to volunteer there.  I went with another friend to get some hours in.  We'll call him Breaston.

Breaston and I walked up to the building and pressed the red button.  The door opened.  We walked inside and saw a row of wheelchairs between us and the front desk.  We explained to one of the people working there that we were here to volunteer, and she had us go around and talk with the residents.

Eventually we were introduced to Bill and Dick, who were both around 80 years old.  We spent the next two hours talking with them and getting to know their life.  They had both served in some form of the military and had prominent careers in insurance or electricity.  Dick was a little more talkative, and here are a few key things he said:

-Don't smoke! It will make your later years no fun at all.
-Have fun.  He kept mentioning how much fun he had his life, and how he didn't regret a single thing.

We only live once.  The best we can do is live how we want to.


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