It's obviously living to them. It's their money, and they prepared to spend it on staying alive to guide their family through life as far as they could. Wait until you break 70 and you will understand. Especially in today's world, the one driving force that keeps my wife and I going is to make sure our offspring will survive the coming hell that is staring us in the face.
I am 70. My father’s body is alive but he’s gone. My mother’s mind is alive but her body is failing and is cared for by people she doesn’t know in places she doesn’t want to be but has no choice. They’re serving life sentences in prisons and their only crime is living. They both came from very poor families. Dad swore he’d never work in a coal mine and Mom wanted to get off the farm as fast as she could. All my life they told us they wanted to build something to pass on to their children and that’s not going to happen. My brothers and I are cringing at the possibility of a similar future.