Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's been a grand, elevating, life-confirming experience these last two years.
I'd taken three years off to live as a normal person, so this was my first time back into it, and it was kind of shocking, but then it was fun.
Later on when it became a routine it was not as exciting I'll admit that. The first three years were wonderful, the rest were just money making and having fun.
The authentic experience, where is that? Living the moment. That is something that we're losing.
It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
But the experience that I had, which was basically just feeling loved and taken care of in a room full of thousands of people I didn't know, seemed to be a pretty strong sign that what I was doing was a good thing.
This experience has been once in a lifetime.
I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.
I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.
A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.
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