Tired and retired

Working, working working working . . . every morning up and heading out to work, every night sleeping in front of the television so you can get up and go back to work the next morning.  No wonder people dream of retirement.

And yet . . .

Retirement is the slippery slope into old age that can catch people unaware.

Unware of who they are, what they like, where they fit in.

A world where there is nothing to do, nowhere to go, no need to be,  destroys people faster than work.  When all the focus shifts from what do I HAVE to do today, to how do I feel today, it's not always the blessing it might have seemed.

Not having to work should not mean idleness.  It means choosing what to do and when to do it.  It means doing those things you deem most important. 

It means finding your bliss and letting it carry you into old age smiling.