A Will for Tomorrow - Secrets of the 100 Year Old Man
The 100 year old man was a child during the world's first Great War. He came of age in the roaring twenties. He raised children in the Great Depression, only to watch his sons go off to World War II. He was a company man in the 1950's and his retirement was a gold watch - about the same time as the first man walked on the moon.
He saw presidents die in office, Americans die in far off lands and he went to the funerals of all his close friends and family. The 100 year old man loved the large screen TV of today with all the channels (including that racy HBO with its wonderful foul language and "brief nudity"). He equally loved the choices of food, reading materials and flourish in the voices of the Caribbean women who cared for him.
After living more than 36,500 days, the 100 year old man is not sure what to do tomorrow. The problem with tomorrow is it is a truly unknown time and place, now that he's reached the century mark. Today. He has this time, this hour, and this minute. But tomorrow?
Some days he hoped that there would be no tomorrow - that this night he would pass back into the arms of his beloved wife. Other days he hoped to see the Red Sox battle the Bronx Bombers or to find out who won American Idol. He never worried much about tomorrow over the past 100 years, but now, tomorrow was on his mind.
So he called me to his small encampment at the end of the hall at a local nursing home and asked me to make out his will. His first will ever. It was his first plan for tomorrow's "what if?" Two weeks to the day his will was witnessed and signed, the 100 year old man indeed passed in his sleep.
His wishes were recorded in his will and trust as a map for his family's tomorrows. All is well. A life well lived.
