Freedom 18

I always wondered why it was "freedom 55", but I decided to top that and go with "freedom 18". I'm beginning to feel all the effects of being "retired" and nothing to do, except for the body aches and such. There really isn't very much purpose for me to sleep, so I can sleep as late as I want; and, there isn't any purpose for me to wake up, so I can wake up as late as I want. The only thing I am missing is the friends that I could go to Tim Horton's with, every morning, to talk about line dancing.

I know it's not very much, but my status on my job search is still the same. I applied for, yes, Tim Horton's yesterday, and I am begging for at least a call. I have to admit that I'm not trying as hard as I should or could be, but I think not getting calls in August and September has really brought me down in the dumps.

However, with all that being said, I was thrilled to find new ideas about how I could use this experience to help me with future encounters, which is where I came up with the whole retirement thing. Haha. I know that this may be the closest I come to experiencing retirement until I actually do retire, so I know that it will be of use if I ever come across a situation with the need to relate to this. I can understand that retiring is a bittersweet moment for many; it's a time of change and evaluation, something that I've been doing a bit. So, now I kind of know what it's like to be my grandparents. People often ask me what I do and tell me that they'd be so bored if they were in my spot; all I can do is laugh. I agree that there is not much for me to do, but I haven't really gotten noticeably bored, yet. Like everything else in life, it's about how you choose to approach it with your attitude; I don't need to explain this one again. People that become bored, in my situation, is because they're not willing to see each day as a new and different day, but the same day as yesterday and that everything there is to achieve has already been done.

"There are people who live 70 years, and there are those that live the same year 70 times." - Wayne W. Dyer.