A Life Fully Lived

When is a life fully lived? When is enough “enough”? ……….  When you have been allowed to experience happiness for more than a week straight?  When you have parented a child and thus ensured your future physical legacy will continue to exist on this planet’s surface even after you are gone?  When you have helped make a thousand people happy?  A hundred people?  Ten people?  ONE person???  When you have made a million dollars with your own hands or your own brain?  When you have made sufficient money to retire early?  When that early retirement proves to be less challenging and overall less satisfying than the years of intense effort required to reach such an “idyllic” milestone?  When your children grow up to have children of their own…..and you become a grandparent for the first time?  When, indeed, is a life fully lived???  There is, of course, no true, universally accepted answer to such a basic question, other than this one:  A LIFE IS FULLY LIVED WHENEVER THE PERSON INHABITING A BODY DECIDES THAT IT IS.  Everyone has wildly different standards for satisfaction, and accordingly you should WITHOUT EXCEPTION follow your own inner compass as it relates to pursuing happiness, while reaping the tangible and intangible rewards that will invariably accompany this remarkable temporal journey you have embarked upon.