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Retirement is an Evolution

Posted by cameron

January 16, 2007 |

I remember my parents longing for their “golden years”. Give up work and do what you want to. Only thing was my parents didn’t like being there all the time so that things they wished for didn’t seem so good when they attained it. It lasted just 10 years and they were gone. That is not something to long for. Most people think about it like there is a knife-edge or cliff you fall off sometime in the future. It doesn’t work like that, at least not for me. It is a long process of change both mentally and in the physical world. For example, I have planned for retirement but it was always something out there in the future. As I get closer I think about it more. The planning turns to preparation. Career moves become a thing of the past. In reality I have been on this trajectory towards a new life for the past 5 years and will continue over the next however many years. It is not a knife switch; it is gradual and constant change. Life becomes fuller outside those “normal” working days until it reaches the point where work gets in the way of my other stuff. So change continues and work becomes part-time. Eventually all those other things will consume me and “normal” work will go away. If that is retirement then so be it, but I call it just evolution to doing other stuff. If you wait for the “golden years” and the day you don’t go to work any more, you may be disappointed.


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