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Climbing The Ladder Of Success
I’m so done with that
Climbing The Ladder of Success
Some people step on other people’s fingers on the way up.
Some people say “Excuse me” as they climb by.
Some don’t bother to climb at all.
Some kick other folks in the throat and laugh as they fall.
Some help other people climb.
Some climb up just so far and are happy.
Some are never happy.
Some find a ladder that isn’t so damn crowded.
What kind of climber are you? (Tony Lawrence)
I’m retired now and done climbing ladders. I wasn’t done when I wrote those lines back in 2009, but now I’m retired and just happened to come across this in an old file.
I was lucky to find a ladder not so crowded and equally lucky to have no great ambition to climb very high. I could have climbed higher, but as I’ve explained elsewhere, my wife became ill and I wanted us to have our time in the sun while we still could. So I cut back on work and we played until she couldn’t. I’m glad we did that, I think it was a good decision, though in these uncertain times, I wish we could have put aside more for retirement.
