Learning from Lyman
I recently posted about my friend Lyman . He recently turned 94 years old. Man...94. That’s impressive. Spending time with him over the last year has really made me look at life differently. I mean, my default is to look through my 26-year-old optimist glasses. It’s easy to assume that my health will always be this good, that I’ll land a job that I love, that I will settle down, marry someone, have kids, and have it all at the end of my life. But, again, that’s the 26-year-old optimism coming out. Which makes me think: what if God wanted to keep me on this earth until I was 94? I thought looking at Lyman’s life would help me answer this question. I thought about it, and it’s sobering: +He met countless people over the decades…but most of them have passed away. +He gets to spend time with his wife everyday, but she has dementia and it limits what she can do. +He will never be kicked out of this assisted living facility , but his lifetime savings is quickly