Retirement

Put some Goodyears on

The word makes me think of re-tiring your car, and re-tire-ment makes me think of putting new wheels on your mind. Thus, retirement is a chance to take your mind on a spin, with new tires. That's the crazy perspective.

The more sober perspective is that it's simply a time to not work, relax, and do what you want/what you've always wanted to do, if you haven't done it yet.

If you have a need to keep busy, there's volunteer work, if not small jobs here and there. I would recommend spending a little introspective time mapping out what makes you happy, and spending your time accordingly, so as not to veer and lurch from thing to thing without an overall scheme.

Personally, I would be highly selective about the tv, use the library alot to listen to new music, watch videos I like (I like documentaries), and read books that are perfectly suited to my individual taste, and keep fit by going on daily walks or swims or whatever. I would travel, if it was in my budget, and do what I could to alleviate suffering in the world. I would definitely go to baseball games and sun myself. I would visit museums and galleries. I would do new things, like learn new languages or join a birdwatching group or go to a spiritualist meeting or whatever. I would go to the services of tons of different religions, just for fun. For starters.

If you like lawns, there's lawn bowling, golf, and croquet. If you like water, there's lakes, rivers, streams, the beach, and pools. If you like animals, there's Alaska and Canada or wherever, and zoos (and pets). Okay, enough o' that.

If you like service, there's Dr's without borders, the Peace Corps, the Clinton Global Initiative, and just getting down and dirty somewhere making latrines or water filters or distributing toothbrushes or malaria bednets, in addition to lobbying for change with letters, etc..