My Three Lifetimes
He has allowed me to live 3 lifetimes.
I don't know why.
I didn't really deserve it.
But He has allowed it.
My First Lifetime.
My first lifetime began when I was born in New York City, grew up on Long Island, went to college in Virginia, and was married for the first time in 1958.
But it ended when my first wife, Marilyn, passed away in 1969 at the age of 35.
We were married for 11 years.
She had a congenital heart disease and passed away after open heart surgery was performed on her that wasn't successful.
I say this was my first lifetime because the Pastor asked me what I would like him to say about our marriage at my wife's funeral service.
I told him that we had a marriage that seemed complete in that we seemed to be married for at least 50 years.
We did everything we wanted to do together culminating in my dream vacation a year before her death on the Islands of Hawaii.
In other words, I had no regrets about our life together, except that my wife passed away.
I learned from this that the word "regret" has never been part of my vocabulary.
I have always tried to live my life to the fullest.
My Second Lifetime My second lifetime began after my first wife's death.
I was single for about three years where Social Nudism became an antidote for my Sexual Obsession that I had up to that time.
Actually I feel that if Social Nudity was less frowned upon by Society, females would be looked upon more as Human Beings rather than just as Sexual Objects by men.
After this I met my second wife.
I met Sue, fell in love with her, and then we married in 1973.
We continued to live in New York for about 8 years.
During this time after my second marriage, I participated in Common Cause, the United Nations Association, and many other Political Lobbying Associations.
It was a very exciting and somewhat successful period in my life.
After about 8 years, my wife, who was Argentine, asked me whether I would like to move down to Argentina or not, because her father was quite sick, and she would like to be with her family at this time.
I thought about this for a time and thought that if we moved to Argentina the only thing I would really miss would be my interest in the American Professional Sporting scene.
But then I realized that this was only a minor concern, and so we moved down to Argentina and began my third adventure.
This was the end of my second lifetime.
My Third Lifetime My third lifetime began in my trying to find a job as an accountant in Argentina.
This was my profession in the States.
But since I didn't know the language (Spanish), I couldn't find a job.
I never really did learn the language, because I began teaching English to Argentine business people, and I found that I loved doing this so much that I gave up my desire in becoming an accountant in Argentina.
In fact I've now been doing this for over 25 years now and I've learned that this is probably one of the most important jobs one can do in life, regardless of what country you're in, because you're really becoming engaged in intimate international relations.
In fact, one of my students taught me how to use the computer and another, who was on the Board of Directors of a large company down here, taught me that the secret to his success was perseverance.
And I discovered that this could be essential for anybody's success in any type of work that you're engaged in..
In fact a friend of mine in Argentina got a job over Internet in China teaching English.
As I'm now into my early 80's I feel my third lifetime might be coming to an end now, But I realize that with my three lifetimes, I really have no regrets.
I feel I led a full life and I'm satisfied with all my accomplishments.
Therefore I feel that as you live your life, you should try to live it so that you'll never have any regrets about it later in life.
In summation I would say that I kind of blew with the wind (circumstances) in all of my activities.
And I credit God for putting me in a position to enjoy all of these blessings.