Some retirees embrace their new lifestyle generously. They seem to revel in their new found freedom, thrive in their new activities and new relationships, and celebrate in their good fortune to be alive in this marvellous time of life.
Others appear indifferent about retirement. While not downhearted, they seem uneasy, slightly distressed, and occasionally irritable beyond what could be considered normal.
Still other retirees are repelled by the uncertainties or by the monotony of a life that seems to them empty of challenge, of action, and excitement. Something has drained from them; they appear to be simply surviving, not genuinely thriving in their new life.
Certain people who one may think are the most prepared to take the plunge into retirement turn out to be the very ones who find the retirement lifestyle road to be the roughest. At some level they are resisting the changes that retirement brings. They resist in many ways, denial, avoidance, anger, irritability, depression, submission, etc.
Addressing the perplexing question
This brings us to a somewhat perplexing question:
‘What is retirement supposed to be?’
Is it marked down to be a time of rest, a new career path, a playground, withdrawal, new stimulation, respite or what?
There is tremendous ambiguity surrounding retirement. We really don't know exactly what it is supposed to entail and there are few if any social directives in our culture that guide us in organising our retirement with stability. And yet there is great hope inherent in retiring from workaday pressures; hope for new life prospects, new life directions, new endeavours.
Retirement is starting all over again.
In a very real sense, retirement is like leaving school behind but much more a new beginning of something much bigger than any of us can conceive.
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