Pagosa Springs News Summaries Tuesday, September 7, 2010 Local News - Opinions & Editorials - Business & Real Estate - Neighbors & Families - Arts & Entertainment - Sports & Recreation - Humor, Fiction, Poetry - Health & Environment - Religion & Philosophy  HUMOR: Too Young to Retire, Too Old to Die Bill Hudson | 6/4/10 Back to the News Summaries Retirement.  What a remarkable concept. I’ve never imagined myself as a retired person.  I’ve been self employed almost my entire life and never made it a priority to set aside anything, in the way of savings, for an eventual retirement.  I think, when you work for yourself — without any promise of a paycheck at the end of any particular month — you get used to the idea that God provides for you and your family in spite of your own total incompetence as a business owner. So why wouldn’t He provide for you when you get too old to work? My kids — who will probably have to figure out what to do with good old Dad when I eventually reach that point — should have developed a healthy dose of skepticism about self-employment, seems to me.  They watched me and their mother struggle to pay the monthly bills and furnish the house with second-hand furniture.  They watched us skip one family vacation after another, because we simply couldn’t afford the time off — or were afraid of missing out on a potential job. Who, in their right mind, would want to live like this, they had to be asking themselves, as they dressed themselves for school — in second-hand clothes. Remarkably enough, all three of our kids are now grown and, heavens forbid, they are all self-employed. And apparently, they are already set to retire. Yesterday, my youngest daughter, Ursala — who runs a local graphic design business called White Rabbit Studio — officially received her AARP card in the mail. Ursala is 22 years old. I was so shocked by the arrival of Ursala’s AARP card that I broke a sacred family rule, and opened her mail for her.  Yes, it was true.  AARP had enclosed a plastic card, already stamped with Ursala’s name and AARP membership number. I was a member of AARP for a few months, but they kept sending me this magazine filled with photos of old people doing semi-active things, and interviews with withered-looking movie stars whom I remember looking young and viril.  It was too depressing, and I canceled my membership. I guess I just didn’t want to admit to being that old. Now, it seems, I have become so old that my youngest daughter is an AARP member.  My lord, I never expected to see the day Visit the Pagosa Daily Post

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