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I have to keep moving or I get stiff.
For me it is work. I love to work. It is usually painful to my old joints and muscles but it is my bliss. Spent the past week doing punch out/carpentry at the barn I'm finishing up. Last thing I need to be doing is broom and shovel and caulk and hammer and screw drill work. But it's what I do. My mind has not caught up with the reality that the body is 60-something. Freaking frontal lobe is in for a big surprise someday. |
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I masturbate. A lot. I mean, a lot.
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Then, in April 2021, arthritis hit my wrists, hands, and shoulders (I think the docs are full of shit with that diagnosis, cuz I'm fine now). So my plan to "work until I couldn't" happened then, a few months short of my 71st BD. It took me a good year or more to enjoy NOT working; it really bothered me at first. Oh well, I'm enjoying NOT working now, and I have more income now than I ever did when I was working. Good luck. |
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I need to downshift to a lower gear. I already purposefully do less to save the wear on the body. That mental gymnastics required is more effort than the work. |
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This. Fighting inertia has been the hardest part of retirement for me. I have engineered a schedule of sorts for myself so I don't end up buried in a book all day everyday... once I get started it is possible to continue through the day.
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I'm 68 and still running my business. I plan on doing so until I drop (I LOVE what I do, so why stop?)
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Can't say I've noticed. I'm not a big fan of clocks or calendars. Won't even bother to track what day of the week it is unless the trash needs to be pushed out to the road.
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Due to inflation they are no longer free
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Wasn't talking to you troll.
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As a workaholic myself, I probably won't "retire" either. Ken, if you love what you do, it's not a job. Keep on working! |
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I hope to die at 100 with a hammer in one hand and a fist full of nails in the other...and a pencil behind the ear...propped up against an old oak tree with my dog at my side.
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There is actually a name for that (or used to be) -- time transcendence...
When you are 10, a year is 10% of your life -- when you're 50 its 2% so the perception is that times goes faster as we age. I've taken up music (again after 30 years) and as one of the few surviving males in my wife's family and my own - I've become a financial and personal mentor of sorts to the younger relatives. And I've reached a station in life where they actually listen. Yes, I'm slowing down and 3-4 hours in the Florida heat is about all the physical labor I can tolerate any more and I'm lucky I remember my pants when I leave the house in the mornings... Been with the same woman 55 years and we're compatible now - we both get headaches. |
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Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown Waiting for someone or something to show you the way Tired of lying in the sunshine Staying home to watch the rain And you are young and life is long And there is time to kill today And then one day you find Ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run You missed the starting gun And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun But it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in a relative way But you're older Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death Every year is getting shorter Never seem to find the time Plans that either come to naught Or half a page of scribbled lines Hanging on in quiet desperation Is the English way The time is gone, the song is over Thought I'd something more to say Home, home again I like to be here when I can When I come home cold and tired It's good to warm my bones beside the fire Far away, across the field The tolling of the iron bell Calls the faithful to their knees To hear the softly spoken magic spells |
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Speaking of time, this woman from Christmas Vacation is now 70 years old.
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