Congratulations on your impending retirement! Did you ever think this moment would actually arrive? If you’re like me, you look back on the last thirty years and wonder how they rushed by at warp speed. I spent the last six years of my teaching career counting down the months and then couldn’t believe that the big day had come!
I have friends who are already retired and who made it look very appealing. They had plenty of time for grandchildren, reading, exercise classes, golf, and travel. They finally completed all those house projects they had been putting off for years, and they looked so rested and relaxed. Who wouldn’t want a piece of that?
Someone recently asked me what I planned to do when I retired. “Retire?” I asked. “I’m not planning to retire!” I can’t think of anything much worse. What would I do if I weren’t pursuing my passion? Yes, my work is my passion and I hope to be pursuing it for many more years.
I like to travel, just not for long periods of time. I don’t play golf. I do mess around in my garden, but this only takes a few hours of my week. I love to read, but I couldn’t read all day, every day.
Now that you’ve finally retired and have some free time, perhaps you might be interested in learning some things that you previously never had time to learn. But first, you must decide where you want to gain this new knowledge and with whom you want to gain it.
The last place in the world that might come to mind for taking classes in the subject of your choice would probably be some sleepy little Mexican fishing village!
Someone recently asked me what I planned to do when I retired. “Retire?” I asked. “I’m not planning to retire!” I can’t think of anything much worse. What would I do if I weren’t pursuing my passion? Yes, my work is my passion and I hope to be pursuing it for many more years.
I like to travel, just not for long periods of time. I don’t play golf. I do mess around in my garden, but this only takes a few hours of my week. I love to read, but I couldn’t read all day, every day.
You’ve probably heard it said about getting ahead in life that “it isn’t what you know, it’s who you know.” While there is a certain amount of truth to that claim, I can assure you there is a great deal of truth in this statement: “Happiness depends on your ability to stay connected in retirement.” Quite simply, numerous studies show that people who withdraw from life and from connections with others are not only miserable in their retirement years, but they tend to die sooner than people you stay connected in retirement.
Where do the good guys go when it is time to retire? I said good guys, mind you; not rich guys. Sometimes they are not the same thing.
Americans tend to retire to gated communities I have noticed, cannot think why. It would not do for me, it would remind me rather of a security conscious boarding school where I spent a particularly unpleasant ten months as a child.
The Brits go for places like Italy and Spain, or the coast of UK where they enjoy being flooded with regular monotony and remarking that the sunsets are spectacular. I could not manage to admire a sunset if I was standing in flood water three inches over my wellies.
Deal of the day
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