Assurance for the modern age. (Part 3)

Assurance for the modern age

Part 3: A life full of opportunities

I can expect to live for 80 plus years in reasonable good health before a decline where I will be well looked after – though things may be difficult in my final few years. I will never go hungry; on the contrary, I will have a plenitude of good things to enjoy. I will receive a good education and there will be many opportunities open to me, subject to my personal interests and aptitudes. Of course, there will be obstacles, set-backs and difficulties, some caused by others, some inevitable according to how the cookie crumbles, and from time to time I will stumble because of my own weaknesses and mistakes. Nevertheless, there is every opportunity for me to enjoy a satisfying life, where, according to my preferences and the chances of life, I may get married, have a family, pursue an interesting, worthwhile and fulfilling career, and enjoy numerous milestones in the lives of myself and my loved ones and through holidays and special occasions, have many, many high spots.

There is much to celebrate! And, in practice, these things are the bedrock of what makes life worth living. I suppose I have a particular concern because – although I freely recognise that the above wonderful list of experiences is what makes life satisfying – I am committed to a life of faith, and I want to explore how modern people may discover an inner life and a world view to sustain them – not simply in case they should be unlucky and miss out on this list of “goodies”, but precisely because there is a deep-seated calling in humankind for life to be about even more than enjoying the good things of life.