The New Meaning To Retirement.
Is a better meaning to retirement - is it the Gold watch received after working our tails off to get there or the retirement package which most of the business or industries today no longer go along with.
I don't remember my father receiving a Gold watch after his retirement or maybe he worked in a different sector where they don't offer any packages after retirement.
The question that has been troubling me all along was: why don't people pick a life that has no ending, a life beyond the one we are currently living or what is beyond our imaginations.
A life that is full of excitement after retirement from the corporate world - I also had discovered that they can be a life after the paid work which we are so custom to it and that they can be a life followed by a life of a gift, study and home work (I'm not referring to the home work of writing assignment or school work) these are other forms of work that can be much rewarding than the one measured in dollars forms [paid work]
"The end is not the end until we wish our self-done"
People are more productive in the late 60, 70 & 80 years of old because the old is only the old until wished itself old. In the old economy our parents went to work not because of the work but because of the pay - and the new economy we sought to go to work not because of the pay but because of the work itself.
We don't have to be retired the same way our parents did and most of all to retire poor with life regrets, they can be more to life than the end of it.
Through my studies and research I found interest in the new meaning of life and the meaning to retirement.
The is a new set of case law, some new models for success and numbers.
We can measure our lives after retirement by the following:
- How many young people we have coached?
- How many paintings finished.
- The Gardens planted. Books read or maybe written.
- How many patients driven to hospitals?
- How many school trips did we organise?
- What moments of quiet did we catch?
- Which fireside chats have we treasured?
- What special meals did we enjoy?
- Letters written or photographs framed. Friends counselled and love kindled.
Life can be much broader if only we could realise that the is life after we been retired. Let us treasure the moments and make it beautiful for others and most of all for ourselves.
We can build a life so deeply satisfying that we can never want to retire from it, and it can be possible if we only understood what retirement means to us.
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