"Finishing Well" and Chasing Rabbits

Update on this book. Recall that this book is about maximizing your life experience when it comes to the "second half" of life. As author Bob Buford explains early in the book, many of us spend our first half of life like we are "chasing rabbits." Think Greyhounds on the race track. He relates a story of how the mechanical rabbit broke down in one race, and the dogs were able to do something they hadn't done before - they caught the rabbit! Buford writes, "But they didn't know what to do with it. They were just leaping around, yelping, biting each other, totally confused about what was happening." The same thing can happen to us when we finally catch the "rabbit" in our lives - whether that is fame, wealth, the bigger house - whatever it was that we have been working so hard to achieve. The trick, Buford writes, is to find a "rabbit" for our lives that won't break down; one that will sustain us in our second half of life.

What kind of rabbit should we be chasing? Just as is taught in Mens Fraternity (http://www.mensfraternity.com/), Buford tells us that we need to find a cause that transcends our own life. Find something bigger than yourself. There is a clear connection here to the eternal reward of eternal life. Is our scope of view and purpose limited to what happens while we live our present days? Or do we care about something much bigger? The rabbit we must chase must outlive our time here on earth. It has to be something that we can see has an implication on another life with an inexhaustible future.

"Finishing Well" is going to give us sixty examples of the real life "uncatchable rabbits," the causes and purposes of people who've had success, but then set out to pursue something more meaningful and lasting.