Yep, Kathy and I both now officially have life insurance. I'm hoping that's a good thing.
Financially, of course, it's the prudent thing to do, especially with one kid and another on the way.
Mentally, it's good for peace of mind, I guess, but I have this nagging feeling that we could become so amazingly risk-averse and pedantic in our lives and this is just one more step down that road...
Hopefully to good things. Hopefully to the confidence to go out and take risks knowing we're protected.
But I've definitely seen too many people get caught up in task of running a modern lifestyle they don't have time to actually live!
Owning and managing and decorating and gardening a home can suck time like nobody's business.
Then there's cleaning, and services (power, phone, cable, internet, milk delivery, mail, newspapers, package delivery) to consider.
Then there's all the other stuff we own: Cars, boats, campers, motorcycles, electronics, computers, tvs, etc.
Then we deal with insurance: car, home, life, mortgage, health, umbrella, bleaach.
Then we need to work to pay for all this. And take our kids to daycare, and school, and sports games and practices, and piccolo lessons, and...and on and on.
The end of the day finds us tired, with lots of crap and too little time to play with it, and nothing left for travel, experience and adventure.
Man. I hope that doesn't completely happen to me.
"I travel because I'm scared of the alternative."
Posted by BilFish at April 20, 2004 07:00 AM