In our on-going effort to provide a public service to our readers, today, we welcome part 2 of the on-going series “Steps to Growing Up”. A check list and gut check to evaluate yourself and your progress into adulthood, for better or for worse.
You can read part one, here.
Today, part two. Of equal, if not greater, damning than part one in steps towards growing up is purchasing life insurance.
Nobody actually knows what life insurance does. Not even those kindly old people who try to sell it to other kindly old people during the commercial breaks on The Price is Right. It just kind of exists.
It’s something that at some point you are supposed to buy when you are trying to assimilate into adulthood. It’s sort of like a food processor, or cuff links, but for your life.
I have life insurance. I pay money to some life insurance company every month. As of yet, I have not seen anything in return. And in two years, I have the privilege to give them even more money and not get anything back. I guess that’s not completely true. I do get a quarterly magazine from the life insurance company about how good it is to be living. I guess that’s something…
What I think you are really buying when you cut a monthly check to the life insurance company is the privilege to say, “Yeah, I have life insurance” and get all of the adult connotations that come with it. And if that is something you are striving for then, I guess, mission accomplished.