There IS life AFTER retirement after all!!! Translated…
At the start of my retirement, I was somewhat worried, there’s not that sense of elation that people say there would be, just this relief, how I’m no longer chased by the stresses from work. The coworkers started drifting far from one another, become distant. From before when I just wanted to get as far away from the crowd as I possibly can, now, I wanted to be a part of the group; from before when I was chased after by time, now, I have nothing but time on my hands, that I don’t know what to do with. I’d become, unsettled about my future now.
The life before retirement, my schedules were planned out by someone else. As a student, we live by the course schedules, in the workforce, our time was filled with the tasks we needed to perform. Once we retire, however, life became like that relief from duty, and we’re the ones, needing to find things to fill up all that time, to paint our own separate world of colors, and with that, there’s, that sense of panic, of not being told what to do next.
Gladly, my friend who’d retired two years prior to my retirement led me into socialization, three classes a week, music appreciation, art, outdoor sketching. I’d gotten a chance to live the dream of learning about the arts, I’d found a brand new goal in life, secondly, I’d made some new friends, and I was able to see, a different world.
It’s been three years since my retirement now, and, my days are now, jam-packed, I’d adjusted through that previous phase of panic, and slowly, marched, into the period of stability now and now, I’m filled with expectation, and joy, as I plan out my own future. The life after retirement, it’s an alternative kind of challenge and learning process, it’s just that you no longer needed to be screened for your performances, no need to compete, it’s a brand new kind of self-motivated period of learning now.
And so, adjusting from working to retirement takes some time, because previously, you’d had your jobs, to occupy your time, then, all of a sudden, you don’t, because you’re retired, which is why it’s all too important, to start off on them hobbies when you’re younger, so, you won’t have such a difficult transition from working your nine-to-fives to all of a sudden, having too much spare time on your hands, and, taking up things you enjoy, like pursuing a hobby that you’d always wanted to but never had the time for when you were younger is a good way to kick off that retirement life of yours.
Life, the Obstacle Course 