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Los Angeles senior retirement living
Retirement: A DIY Special Event
By: Retred65
A better way to phrase the question is, what do you want to live for? Because if you don’t have a reason to live, you will soon die. Buck up, Bucky, or get ready to shuffle off the mortal coil. Straighten your priorities: you don’t live to work. You work to live. And if you don’t need to work, live better. From day one of retirement, I’ve never understood how I ever found time to work for a living.
I was just talking with a friend the other day and he told me the story of his father’s passing: his father worked up until the last day before his sixty-fifth birthday dreading retirement, had the day off to go in to submit his paperwork for Social Security, went in filled out the forms, stepped outside, and sat on a bench in the warm sunshine. A friend found him there an hour later, dead of natural causes.
I’m told that on the average a person works until they are sixty-five, collects one Social Security check, and passes away.
I don’t care much for those odds. I didn’t then, and I don’t now. I retired when I was 52 years of age. That was in 1992. I’m sixty-five working on sixty-six. I’ve never looked back one day. I’ve never regretted a single day of missing work. I have been busy doing the things I love to do.
I started with learning new skills and doing a lot more volunteer work. I also paid more attention to my then teenage kids. I attended their sporting events that I hadn’t had time for before. I involved myself in my hobbies of stamp collecting and model railroading.
We remodeled our home to prepare it for eventual sale. Later when my wife finally decided to join me in retirement, we graduated a son from high school, married off a daughter, sold our home and moved to Hawaii in one month.
In Hawaii, we have continued the pattern of volunteer work, working in our community, and pursuing hobbies. My wife has enjoyed extensive travels and her special interests. She started, learned, and still practices at a high level of skill a new hobby art form and has made dozens of new friends. We remodeled our new home to make it a better fit for our needs.
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I landscaped the one acre grounds. We collected, and hauled hundreds of pickup loads of rocks to build dry laid rock walls and terraces. We hauled in over a hundred cubic yards of cinder-dirt, and planted hundreds of tropical plants and flowers.
I started one small business to see if I could do it, and went busted. Live and learn. I’ve written several books, and published one. I’ve begun another small business venture, which more closely matches my current skills and interests, and I’m working to grow it into profitability.
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I plan to publish more of my books in the future and to continue to grow my little business. We are cleaning and painting, and doing minor remodeling to our present home, as we have made the long term decision that we will return to the mainland to be closer to our children and grandchild.
While we love Hawaii, every time you want to go visit friends or relatives, you start with an expensive, and now uncomfortable and irritating flight, and a car rental. We would rather spend that money on gasoline and gifts. Air travel used to be something special. Now it is a royal pain, and an endurance of bureaucratic process.
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When We get to our new location, our plan is the same: keep physically and mentally active, volunteer, learn new things, enjoy new sites and locations. Live life and enjoy the process.
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