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What’s a mediocre retirement? You might think ours is but but we are doing exactly what WE want to be doing. Our happiness is not based on other’s opinions about the way we live our lives.
I have no idea about your retirement but the original post was from someone who was clearly not enthused and not expecting a lot of positives. I planned and started my retirement with a completely different outlook. I was enthusiastic and had lots and lots of plans. Many were accomplished, some were not, but the results were close to my highest expectations.
I actually don't anticipate that my retirement will be all that "amazing."
You will not be disappointed.
I hope you enjoy not enjoying your retirement. Now, I must return to the relative obscurity that defines my retirement existence--and yes, I am basking in the anonymity of it all. I long for nothing in my past--it's gone.
It is not an “ease into it quietly experience “if you are in a high stress negative environment job -which are often the ones that pay well-
And often they will try to trip you on the way out so they can fire you and cut a check for your vested portion and save millions
For those of us that have walked the walk -the day after is like turning off niagra falls
The silence is deafening
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"You will absolutely love it!!!" because it's overkill. Can't anyone just ease into it quietly anymore?
What would you rather have them say? "life sucks and then you die".
So I guess it boils down to what you define amazement as.
Yes, I think it is amazing to be able to get up and not have to go to work. I think it will be amazing to not have to drive in horrible weather in the winter if I don't want to. I think I will absolutely love being able to actually stay up late and watch the entire basketball game to the end without having to tivo it because I have a 4:30 am wake up call and if I do that now, I'll feel horrible in the morning.
I think I will love being able to do a few things extra and not pick and choose because I only get a few weeks vacation time.
so I can't agree with you, I do think I will absolutely love being retired. will it be all sunshine 24/7, no. but that's not my life right now.
I'm just approaching mine (later this year) and am already feeling performance anxiety
from those promising that my retirement will be "amazing" because theirs is.
Unless these people (friends?) are writing the checks they aren't promising anything.
If these are salespeople...
What's most striking to me in those having an "amazing" retirement is just how miserable they must've been right until the day they retired. Now, I have been in the position of wanting -- even needing -- desperately to get out of a particular job, but in those cases I applied for and got other jobs. I can't imagine spending 20-30 years dreading getting up every morning and suffering every day of my life until I retired, at which point I considered my "real life" to begin. It shouldn't be that sharp a deliniation. And, yes, I actually know people RVing across the country and blogging about it and climbing Mount Everest and posting videos of it. Maybe I just know a lot of overachievers. I often hear, "I can't wait to see what you do with YOUR retirement!" I may give up social media; that'd be "amazing"?
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