The Retirement Thread
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2 Aug
11:25am, 2 Aug 2024
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TROSaracen
I can’t remember a day of nothingness. Concept is lost on me. One of my mantras is ‘today is the youngest you will be for the rest of your life’. As I get older that mantra gets more relevant. Maybe as energy levels and zest decline the concept will emerge, but for now there’s a fuck of a lot to be enjoyed, experienced and done while I can. They’ll be stuff I miss out on, but hopefully not much and not for the want of trying to cram it all in. |
2 Aug
11:49am, 2 Aug 2024
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alpenrose
I love that in the summer I can grab any day like today and head to the beach. I don't need or want to go away in the summer.
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2 Aug
11:56am, 2 Aug 2024
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macca 53
Congratulations @Hibeedeb and @Silvershadow
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2 Aug
11:56am, 2 Aug 2024
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Velociraptor
Nothingness was what I started craving towards the end of my working life. Previously, when I was tied to a treadmill of, largely, my own making, I felt as if I wanted to crawl into a very, very small space and hide there ("a crisp packet on a beach", a friend in a similar situation once said). But later, and probably many times on this thread, I said, "Nothing. I'm going to do nothing. I've never been free to do nothing." I do a lot of nothing now, in between doing things that aren't work. It's great 
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2 Aug
12:00pm, 2 Aug 2024
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macca 53
We volunteered at our local CAB when we first retired - we only managed six months before realising that the job really needed people who had different skills than either of us has (and should be a paid role). Nowadays we’re just on holiday, either at home or somewhere else 😁 |
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2 Aug
12:01pm, 2 Aug 2024
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macca 53
I’m a world-class potterer nowadays 😁😎
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2 Aug
12:03pm, 2 Aug 2024
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EvilPixie
Apart from when in maternity leave I’ve never not worked for as long as now (6 weeks?) I expected to get twitchy but I’ve not at all Loving the ability to sit and read for hours |
2 Aug
12:40pm, 2 Aug 2024
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Johnny Blaze
Nothing for me means a day without work or the thought of work; a day when I'm also not caring for my son, and therefore a day when I wake up and do nothing in particular, which could be going to the pics, walking the dog, potting the plants up, even just having a walk for the sake of having a walk, but even then I'm listening to my pods. So I suppose not *exactly* nothing but still days which were few and far between 5 years ago and which were a blessed respite when they came. |
2 Aug
12:45pm, 2 Aug 2024
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TheScribbler
I think there's quite a work/commercial guilt about 'doing nothing' as actually we very rarely do nothing, but tend to think that we have to be 'productive' for at least part of the day. On a recent creative retreat I went on, we coined the term 'baggy spaciousness' to describe the quality of time, soft attention and ease that we could enjoy 'doing nothing'. Away from a commitment to produce or create something perfect, we went for walks, made food, watched dragonflies, painted and wrote stuff that wouldn't have existed without that soft fascination and time. |
2 Aug
12:52pm, 2 Aug 2024
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Angus Clydesdale
Ah, QSTIS, what a lovely poetic way to think about doing nothing. Baggy spaciousness is my new favourite aspiration!
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