How NOT to lose your livelihood.

...Is what I've been thinking about the past couple of days.

I had always been told that I was a fairly optimistic person, and energetic, but my fear is that it won't last forever. As much as I want my optimism and spunk to be essential parts of my core being, I'm afraid that Life and Time and Experience will make me jaded, just like everyone else, and tired and grumpy and unmotivated.

I was eating dinner with my uncle today and I asked him if he was ever thinking about retiring. He said not until he was 75 years old. Because he said that God made our bodies, down to our very cells, to constantly be in motion. We weren't made to sit idly all day. He told me he was afraid that if he stopped working, his cells would become "bored" and he would die. :) I smile because it sounds like a ridiculous idea....to rest, means to die? But I realized that with this idea embedded in his mind, my uncle hasn't lost his livelihood. He's extremely happy, extremely successful, and extremely kind. Course, every now and then he doesn't mind relaxing with a nice scotch or a game of golf, but he's constantly in motion.

TO be like him requires a lot of discipline and motivation and a life with purpose. I hope I have the beginnings of that. I hope that despite what kind of situation I may be in, personally, or professionally, that it won't effect my core being. That I can have some kind of control over my destiny and not have my past ad experiences define who I am.

**Edit: I retract my last statement. Foolish statement. Your experiences are there as a tool for you to choose the path you wish to pave for yourself. I wish not to negatively affected by bad xperiences.