Just Retired! First year in retirement.

Just Retired! First year in retirement.

Retirement is a new stage in life. For me it is important to brag being retired, because I made it in a new country in about twenty years only.

Not many have the chance/plan to make a decent retirement, but this is not my problem now. The current problem is how to reinvent ourselves to go through retirement successfully.

First year passed with a breath taking speed.

As new retired person it was a lot to do with finances under recession circumstances and Social Security applications. Also it was hard to comprehend the Medicare alphabet to resolve health quest.

With no more commuting to job or spending long hours at work my brain start spinning by itself without the usual load. This is the truth, in retirement we have more time to kill.

We had fun with kayak trips on Michigan' rivers and spent good time on the sun shine and outdoor.Creating new article and web pages was not the priority for a while, cleaning and renting our vacant apartments was the urgent task.

How to spend the remaining life time.

Few questions and honest answers can help:

Do I like violence on TV? Definitely not.
Do I like negative news just for the sake or just for marketing purpose? Sure the Fear sell, but I do not like to be manipulated.
Do I like to join scared people tossed by unemployment and bad health and all kind of difficulties? No, I do not like to listen to negative conversations. I would rather walk for exercise or learn something new for me.

I agree with idea that we are here on planet Earth and we pursue happiness by suffering from our choices.

Different choices will do the trick and get us all we want? I personally doubt about this assumption, but we can choose to become more positive thinking persons. Get ideas from "Life in Retirement" article

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