01 May, 2020

Quora Answer: What Do You Think of Retirement?

The following is my answer to a Quora question: “What do you think of retirement?

Retirement is a card we would all like to have in our deck, but never want to play.  People like the option of being able to retire on their own terms, but most would never take it.  If retirement meant not having a job, or something to be involved in, we would lose our sense of worth and decline.  It will likely lead to an early grave, because we are all built to have a feeling of purpose.

If retirement meant spending time doing what we really love, as opposed to how we spent our career, I think that is very sad.  It is like a man who wasted decades for a promise he never saw kept.  Rather, we should have that goal of financial stability and independence, but work in the now, and enjoy every moment of it.  What is the point of a distant gratification if we do not enjoy the journey?



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