"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."- Henry David Thoreau: American essayist

This was my quote of the day today:

"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."

- Henry David Thoreau: American essayist

After a weekend which included working with my father-in-law to help in his search for an assisted living facility to move into, it is more than just apropos.As we sat listening to the numbers regarding the financing of this, I could see the look of dismay and fear come across his face. 

How can he afford this?

What happens if he can't?

What happens when his resources run out?

After being inundated and overwhelmed with numbers, we were able to boil it down to a very simple equation.

His current assets are more than enough to insure that both he and his wife can live out the rest of their days in the facility he was looking at, with out ever having to worry about money again.They can,given the setting they are considering moving in to,and their physical limitations,live and experience their lives to the fullest.

They are indeed, wealthy.

Its just that simple.

One of my favorite characters of all time is Tevye,from Fiddler on the Roof.

When we first meet him he opines in the song "If I were a rich man",of what life would be like if he were in fact wealthy.

In no uncertain terms he lays out exactly what wealth looks like.

Wealth has little to do with quantity.....it's all about quality.

Do I have quality in my life?

In every aspect of my life?

If I can answer yes to that then I am a very wealthy man!