Buying beach property isn't such a big deal when you're rich - at worst, you lose it, but you're still rich. As for living in the present... I'm in my 50s, and

Buying beach property isn't such a big deal when you're rich - at worst, you lose it, but you're still rich. As for living in the present... I'm in my 50s, and have a chronic respiratory illness that developed a few years ago, but it has probably been latent since childhood. Today, it's an annoyance to treat and a mild disability. As a child, it would have flat out killed me. That's the change of half a lifetime.