Retirement

There is one thing I am certain of – if you wait until you have enough money to retire then you will never retire.  

I’m not saying you shouldn’t plan and save as much as you can, but the reality is most people will never have enough for the unexpected that will always arise in their lives. No matter how hard you try to anticipate every need that may occur, there will always be the one thing you didn’t think of. So are you going to just keep working until you are too old to enjoy life, or until your life ends on the job?  

All of us realize as we get older that life is never as long as we would like, and that time flies by far too quickly. We may never be able to do all of the things we have dreamed of doing, but if we are lucky we will do a majority of them.  We need to try and experience all we can in life while we are still young enough and healthy enough to do so.  

I hear so many people talk about retiring and not knowing what they will do with their time - thinking they will be bored.  It makes me wonder if they have no hobbies, or have never dreamt of going places and seeing things new.  No yearning for something more than the usual routine. No excitement for the possibilities that lay before them. 

I want to see all that I can and go to as many places as possible as long as my body and mind are able, and the opportunities to do so are there. I know that these things take money, but where there is a will there is a way as they say. I want to purchase a good camera and capture the beauty of the earth through the lens, so I can share with the world the images that I see. I want to write about life and the places I have been so my children and grandchildren can experience them through my eyes. I want to give them the same yearning for things unseen and unknown so they too will try to experience all they can in their lifetime. 

There will be time enough to sit in our chairs and nap when we no longer have the stamina to do the things we like. Of course if we are real lucky, we will keep doing and seeing until the day our soul leaves our body and is no longer here on earth.