Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:
“I guess I will just have to struggle on somehow now that the one in a million shot has come through for me.
How has this come through for you? I missed any posts that indicated that you were paid. Instead, I have only seen your recent updates indicating that you have to return back to work. These two updates seem to be in conflict.
It depends on how one measures things.
I haven’t been paid a penny. But I have a clear conscience.
I wouldn’t trade places with any of you Goons for a cash payment of $500 million, just to pull a crazy random number out of the air.
My brother Richard died two weeks ago. Richard was ten years older than me. So that doesn’t suggest that my time will be up any time super soon. But it does very strongly suggest that my time will be up one of these days, no matter how much I might like to pretend at moments that that is not so. When I am told by a doctor that my time is close to being up, I want the feeling that comes from knowing that I was on the right side re this matter and not on the wrong side.
That’s a form of payment in my eyes. A very, very, very big form of payment.
You are free to see things differently.
But I go by what I see when it comes to making decisions as to how I am going to spend any time remaining to me. That’s how it works, Anonymous.
And, yes, I naturally wish you all the best that this life has to offer a person all the same. Sending you good wishes doesn’t subtract from my own enjoyment of life in any way. So I am happy to go there. Saying that I believe that the retirement study posted at John Greaney’s web site contains an adjustment for the valuation level that applies on the day the retirement begins would subtract from my enjoyment of life in a big way. So, thanks but no thanks re that one.
My best wishes.
Unpaid But Well Compensated (and Conflict Free) Rob
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