Celebrate Retirement Every Day
Getting to retirement is an accomplishment. If this were a race, everyone should cross the finish lines with their hands raised high in victory. You need to celebrate retirement every day. For years you worked to get to this day. I happen to think retirement is the best thing ever invented for the working person. Most of us are not born into wealth and have no idea what it’s like to not have to work for a living until we get to retirement. I can’t believe the number of people who just accept it as another thing that comes along in life. Even worse, some people say they’re actually bored. I started this website to fight boredom and complacency in retirement. You need to celebrate retirement every day and fully appreciate this stage in your life that so many people don’t get to see.
How do you celebrate it? That’s the best news of all because it’s completely up to you. Every person is the author of their own life, and they get to write the story through the choices that they make. Sometimes those choices are difficult and sometimes it seems that those choices are made for us. We may have wanted to have a better job or a different career path but the people making some of the hiring decisions at that time didn’t quite agree with us. Although we like to believe we always have complete freedom to do whatever we want, sometimes other constraints limit our decisions in a very real way. It’s different, however, once we stop working. There’s no one telling us what to do. There are no meetings or conferences calls and no presentations to our supervisors. We are our own supervisor, and the choices are finally ours. If that’s not a good enough reason to celebrate retirement every day I’m not sure what else is. I know the day I left work for the last time I finally felt like my life was my own. I also knew I wasn’t about to waste a minute of it. I had a list of books to read and a roadmap highlighting the places I wanted to go. That list of books keeps growing and that roadmap has more dots on it every day.
Celebrate retirement every day by seeing someplace you've never seen before.
The first retirement trip my wife and I made found us with a car packed with enough stuff to last a year and we look back and laugh at how we looked like we were going to off to college. It was a great feeling, and we still enjoy that journey each year to escape the cold of winter. What we see on the road every year still brings a smile to our faces because it’s a bunch of our fellow senior citizens doing the same thing in their RV’s, campers and station wagons. We’re all making our way down the interstate and the license plates tell the story of this annual migration. Canada, the upper Midwest and the Northeast states are all well represented, and every rest stop shows the smiling faces of the persons who are living their dream in retirement. I believe every person should regard their retirement as a time to live their dream. Celebrate retirement every day by doing something you always wanted to do and keep in mind that there are no limits. You are like the artist with a blank canvas. You can paint the picture of the rest of your life any way that you want. The pressures of your job are behind you; your children are probably living their own lives and the dreams that you had in your youth are waiting for you to bring them back to life.
Did you want to see the world? Do it. My wife and I have been fortunate enough to be able to cross many places off our wish list and have enjoyed our journey more than we ever imagined. We have learned about different areas of the world by meeting the people, seeing how they live and enjoying their cultures and different foods. We live in a beautiful world, and you should celebrate retirement every day by experiencing it to the fullest. If you live in a city, go to the country and, if you live in the country, spend some time in the great cities of the world. Many of them are right here in the good old USA. Explore the mountains if you live on the plains and spend some time on our beautiful coasts. One drive around the shoreline of California or Hawaii, Massachusetts or Maine will make you to want to go back for more.
Look around you and you’ll see that retirement does not mean a porch and a rocking chair anymore. People are living active lives and accomplishing things that they always dreamed of doing. Did you ever want to write a book, take up painting or start a new hobby? The time is now. Even starting a business has become easier because of technology. Retirees are well represented online with their own websites and marketplaces. As a matter of fact, many of them use their income to fund those trips to far off destinations and they’re having the time of their life doing it. They celebrate retirement every day and so should you!
Life is too short to sit at home and watch television all day. Your mind needs to be challenged and stimulated with new things and learning new skills. Learn to play the piano or become a chef, it’s up to you. Get out and see the world. It’s time to Enjoy Retired Life!
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