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RikkiA
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Retirement: Harder than it looks
50 & Over Community / by RikkiA
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 October 20th, 2023
...See more You spend so much of your life looking forward to retirement and then all of a sudden it's here (mind came earlier than expected by a bit when COVID killed my business model in about 6 mos). At first it feels like relaxing in a warm bath - the freedom is wonderful. Then you start thinking about who and what you are without a routine and a purpose you've had since your 30s and it becomes this existential question about the meaning of life and time. I'm not unaware that I'm privileged just to have the opportunity to wrestle with such questions -- many people can't afford to retire. Howevere I do find I spend a lot of time thinking about who I am now and what I really want to do with the time left, and just with the very concept that I even have to *think* about "the time left" at all. Anyone else going through anything similiar??
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