Making a LifePlan is terrific advice ... for everyone. Thanks!! When YOU are IN your plan, you are not wasting time thinking about the past.

Your reference to your parents moved me the most there. I can’t imagine, esp when you’re elderly and less mobile, dealing with the hassles around visiting a child who you still love no matter how bad they fudged up

Don’t be too hard on yourself. It made me recall how I got back into taking courses at the community college after being fired many years ago. Fired? Laid off? What’s the difference? You out of work! Anyway, I told my dad I was enjoying the courses and went on and on but as I looked at his face I realized the courses were a transition and not to get so enamored with the college courses I did not keep moving on!

Friend of mine he get out of shape and looks forward to going back in

Thats good advice. I never follow good advice.

People going to federal lows and camp's don't need advice they need to man up and thank God they aren't going to a fci or usp