The A-Z of being early retired /(retarded)
I have to
keep on reminding myself that I´m retired so am living in the oxymoron of
active retirement. Because of inertia or our deeply-ingrained habits and mental
frames I still lead both an intellectually and physically energetic life. The A-Z compendium that follows could be
valid for: Students, teachers, parents, singles, divorced, doctors, nurses and so on…:
ANXIETY
BUSTING
BOREDOM BLESSINGS (Sp.donkey´s
I´m lying)
CONFIDENCE
CONVERSATIONS COMPETITIVENESS?
DANGER DEATH
DREAMING ON
EXPLORING
EMPATHY & EMOTIONAL VERTIGO & ENTHUSIASM
FOUND
FREEDOM, FINDING YOURSELF, FORGIVE & FORGET, FLATULENT FAMILIARITY
GOING GREEN, GRATITUDE, GROWING OLD (DIS)GRACEFULLY
HOLIDAYING (permanent)
INTERNET
INSIGHTS & INTUITION
JUDGEMENTAL?
JUVENILIA JABBERWOCKY..
KUDOS (credit,
honour and prestige) & KNOWLEDGE
LOSSES,LAUGHTER
AT LEISURE,LOVE SONGS & LUST, LIVING A LIE…
MATURING,
MEDITATION AND MINDFULNESS Mistakes
NEW
ACTIVITIES or even NOTHING NO
ON YOUR OWN
PERSONAL
POWER, PATIENT PERSEVERANCE,PASSION, PRIDE AND PLEASURE
QUALMS
(Those annoying little guilt pangs you get in a fit of loneliness)
RELAXING and
RETHINKING YOUR APPROACH TO LIFE
SURVIVING
SHOPPING, SHARING SPIRIT
TEMPERING YOUR TEMPER
USED TO (
remember when you used to smile?...)
VOICES IN
YOUR HEAD ( not to be
confused with tinnitus)
WISDOM?
WALKS…
XXX´S= kisses
YOU
ZERO (the
chances of surviving after 100)
Special
thanks to Jeff Green´s The A-Z of being single and Nora Hall´s Survive your
Husband´s retirement
BOREDOM BLESSINGS (Sp.donkey´s I´m lying)
