Retirement thoughts Past Present Future

[Paddy]

Content of retirees posts can be quite revealing about our world views. Work is the social/activity outlet for many. Some look forward towards personal growth and some will do the opposite. Having 15 animals around your place and spending time in nature every day works for some and not for others. Being negative and controlling of others is a major health risk. Retirement can bring the best and/or worse of our traits out for the world to see.

Gayle,

I agree. I too live surrounded by nature and enjoy being in it. I can keep myself busy after retirement. My father in law retired and bought a bass boat even though he didn't fish much at all during his working years. Took it out a few times and it sit for years.

I carve stone and my wife works with jewelry and mosaics. We also have a nice garden with peach and cherry trees. If it's cold/rainy, we are in our shops.

People need a backlog of things that either need doing or want to do.....

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

I'm 90+% gray, a little of others except yellow.
According to a color chart I'm "fossil" .

 

[harleyron74]

Who wants to retire? My job is too fun to retire from! Not even close, anyway.
When I retire, I’ll be horizontal in a field, work boots laced, ready for my Lord.
Rocking chair be damned!

Now….about those knee replacements…..

My maternal grandfather was a farmer in central Minnesota. He came in for lunch at noon and had a nap for 1/2 an hour every day.
One day in mid April he got up and walked out of his house. He was going to service his farm equipment and while walking across the farm yard he fell down quite dead! Massive heart attack. His daughter found him in the yard ( that's what motivated her to become a nurse). He was 86 Y.O. if memory serves. R.I.P. Grandpa!

 

[Oaktree]

Interesting, I think I fit in all of those but Artistic the least.

Realistic fits me to a T.

 

[ovrszd]

Content of retirees posts can be quite revealing about our world views. Work is the social/activity outlet for many. Some look forward towards personal growth and some will do the opposite. Having 15 animals around your place and spending time in nature every day works for some and not for others. Being negative and controlling of others is a major health risk. Retirement can bring the best and/or worse of our traits out for the world to see.

All a personal decision.

 

[ovrszd]

My friends are mostly outside of work, or from previous jobs. I have more time to socialize now that I retired.

Absolutely. I socialized with a friend I rarely see for 20 minutes today because we ran into each other at Casey's. Both retired. Both said we don't have time for a job anymore.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

CEO of CVS warns there's a Medicare 'tsunami' heading for the U.S.

Sounds like the old folks are going to stress the declining health care system in the USA as it is around the world. Those needing mental health services the numbers are mind bending.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Giant Study Pinpoints Specific Gut Bacteria Linked to Alzheimer's

During the pandemic I let my way of eating slide and the scales complain when I step on them. I have to double down on focused eating in 2023 and beyond for the sake of mind.

 

[ponytug]

Giant Study Pinpoints Specific Gut Bacteria Linked to Alzheimer's

During the pandemic I let my way of eating slide and the scales complain when I step on them. I have to double down on focused eating in 2023 and beyond for the sake of mind.

Cutting weight, and other sources of inflammation (including oral health!) seem to reduce the risk across many studies.

All the best,

Peter

 

[Gale Hawkins]

People who think positively about aging are more likely to recover memory

A Yale School of Public Health study has found that older persons with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a common type of memory loss, were 30% more likely to regain normal cognition if they had taken in positive beliefs about aging from their culture, compared to those who had taken in negative...

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