Natural Light

December 11th, 2008

We were talking yesterday on our walk, primarily about the fact that, although we have retired and are really enjoying all our time not working, that it was odd to think that "back in that other world" the players that we knew in that chapter are still cycling through the same working events every day.

A few weeks ago, a stress guy called Charlie Tulloch died, an interesting man in the stress office. In addition, very recently at Millwork, Marian, a friend of my wife, also passed away. I commented that we'll hear more and more of the "players" kicking the bucket in one way or another, and here, today, as they say, another one bites the dust.

Steve Legg from Dowty passed away after a long battle with cancer, he was 49 years old, married with children.

I talked about this with my Scottish buddy, as we both know, painfully through the loss of our fathers, that we are on a timer, and it seems more often than not, the timer is not going to tick as long as we'd hope, therefore the "going too soon" concept is really the most important thing about this one life we've been given.

This chapter is rapidly becoming the most enjoyable of my life since childhood and I find it sad that the likes of Charlie, Marian and Steve never reached the point. I felt a similar sadness about my mum and dad not seeing something as magnificent as the rockies when we made our cross Canada trip.

Look around you as you do and make that mental list of all those that probably will miss out on this bit, at Dowty or at Millwork or in the millions of other stuffy little offices around the planet, the battery chickens that will live out the rest of their days under artificial light.