In consideration of this, let me help you to understand what tragedy is: In the February 1998 edition of Reader’s Digest which told of a couple who took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast. He was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta Gorda, Florida, where they putter around the bay in their 30 foot trawler, play softball, and collect sea shells. . . What a waste to spend the latter years of life fielding grounders and picking up seashells. (Adapted from John Piper, Don’t Waste Your Life)