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I’m not a big one for gloating, but I do think this cartoon is a healthy response to our youth-worshiping society. What do you think?
Also, is this couple’s retirement the ideal one you would choose?
February 21, 2016
I’m not sure on the matter…if there were more $$ in the kitty, I would certainly be doing different things 🙂
Money does make a difference in our choices, but it sounds as if you’re doing amazing things with what you have.
For me, my familiar surroundings and my tried and tested circle of friends and family are more than enough to lead a relaxed life. I can always tell the youth in my life that I have been there and done that and now I want to do this.
Andy and I have no desire to travel either. We’re glad we did it when we were younger when the world wasn’t so crowded and when traveling by plane was a lot more fun.
Totally agree with Rummuser! I’ve traveled a lot, and had enough of airports and buses, and want nothing more now, except to be home and enjoy my life!
Yep, that might make me dull and boring, but I too have “been there and done that”!
The only trips we take now is by train every other year to visit my daughter, son-in-law, and granddogs. That’s more than enough. 🙂
I thought of your recent posts when I wrote this one.
You say we live in a “youth worshiping society”. I don’t know how much thought you give flowers. There is the bud, there is the glory, and then there is the wilting.
From the day of dawn, the day Eva and Adam were thrown out of paradise, we have always worshipped at the altar of youth. It’s part of the human condition. It’s why we invest so much of ourselves in our offspring. You know: Future, hope, the arrow facing forward not backward …
I have noticed, and this is not a criticism just an observation, that you keep saying how much you enjoy your “retirement”. That’s great and I am glad for you. However, youth, the middle years, old age are not in COMPETITION. They are stages of our lives. Each with their own merit, each to be enjoyed and then looked back on, fondly. Though, of course, how one does look back from the grave is anyone’s guess.
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Actually some societies respect old folks. Unfortunately ageism does exist in the U.S., and presumably the U. K., since you mentioned in one of your posts.
I have enjoyed most stages of my life for vastly differing reasons – of course, when you look back you tend at times to see only the brickbats and not the bouquets that led you along whatever path you were on then…
I have had the most fascinating phone chat with a lass to do with my retirement entitlements which are to come into being in a few months… I had to call International because I had worked overseas years ago – but it appears that the local branch gave me all the wrong forms – so more will arrive in the fullness of the postal service…
talking about that long ago past was fascinating because it reminded me why I went overseas at the princely age of 17!
That’s great that you will start getting benefits soon. Congratulations!
I really do feel for young people in the UK. They have it pretty tough compared with my own youth. One thing after another has made their lives harder, what with huge tuition fees, withdrawal of welfare benefits, lower wages, and rocketing rents and house prices.
I’m not retired yet, I’m still working part-time and enjoying it. I’ll let you know my feelings about retirement when the time comes.
It’s not about working or not working, it’s about being able to spend our time doing things that we love, that has meaning to us. It sounds as if you’re doing just fine. 🙂