There's a lot of talk right now about how the time between Christmas and New Year's is a sort of calendar wasteland. Nobody knows what day it is and all motivation is gone and people sit around and, as the young kids say, rot.
I will tell you that the early days of retirement are like this. Although I am only semi-retired, having started a part-time job about eight years ago, I realized that my days were anchored by my husband's job...from which he retired, eleven months ago. During the first few months of his retirement, I felt totally lost. It was like I had lost a limb. I floundered, for a long time. I've only recently started to get things back on track, mostly by scheduling things - volunteer gigs, walking the dog, lunch with friends, pickleball.
Turns out, I love structure and retirement is the opposite of that. I guess I'm just not cut out to be fully retired. Being an old person is really going to suck.
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