I've been thinking about setting up this blog for some time now and finally got around to getting started. As Erica Jong once noted, I belong to what she called the "whiplash generation" meaning that through each and every decade of my life the rules & realities have changed. This means that it's always been very difficult to re-invest prior experiences into my today realities.
And guess what?
Retirement is no different!!!!!
I love your idea for a blog about retirement. It really is about re-visioning who you are and who you want to be. May I come along for the ride?
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Today, Jericho & I are going to the country for a few days to visit with friends, Mark & Sheila. Sheila has just called to say that she is "...as usual, running a bit late." We talk about how, during our working lives, we were Type A's when it came to being exactly on time but how now, in our 60's, everyone we know (including ourselves) of the same age are "running a bit late."
ReplyDeleteI think in my case (since I'm running late more often than not too!) it's an aversion to being scheduled most of my working years -- constrained by time demands. Although women are still better at time restraints largely because with households, children and careers they need to get used to discontinuity on an hourly basis, I am still in rebellion at 60 about being rushed or pushed or overwhelmed with too much in too short a time frame or locked into a small space by inflexible situations or people. I'm finding that I need to "go with the flow" now. Too, I am at a level of acquired knowledge and experience -- in life as in my field (education) -- where I know I can be leisurely and get a quality job or etc. done anyway.
A bit like the astounding thoroughbred mare, Zenyatta, who clearly knows that she can take her time to get up to speed, cover the distance from way back compared to the rest of the field and get to the wire in front anyway.