One Life Spent

I was a little frightened and shaken by a thought today. We had a member of staff at work retire recently. She had been in the business for several decades, probably in fairly similar roles, not particularly high up the food chain, as the saying goes. Thinking about how moved she was to be leaving this big part of her life behind, I realised how she had sowed her life into this position. She had been given one life and she had sowed the majority of her life into this one position at work. Now there's nothing wrong with that - well done to her. What strikes me is this: one life, what am I going to plough it into? Time goes and next thing you know you're about to retire. So what will you have ended up spending your one life on?