Retirement. Is it coming to you or looming to you? Let's say you are a gangster and you are going to retire. What happens next? You will find a lack of fingers on your hand. Fortunately, as long as you are an innocent citizen, there’s no bodily harm for retirement. However, there must be losses : income, purpose and most poignantly, relevance. How can we avoid this? Just don’t retire. Giorgio Armani, 89 years old. Warren buffet 93 years old and Joe biden. Considering retirement is far from them. Now you think that’s exceptional. Maybe, you are right but pose a question to yourself // would you retire at a time of such an unstable economy? or Should you do it when you don’t need to?
Even though you are going to be retired, you should know that things have changed. Our lifespan is getting longer which means, your twilight years after retirement are stretching. Then you might ask about hobbies. Maybe you can find passion by teaching youngsters as a mentor with your worldly experience or dabbling in Doctors Without Borders. Sure, hobbies are all well and good for many. But can hobbies truly replace the sense of satisfaction from work? You will wind up feeling pointless, because few can fulfill the depth of being useful at the time you used to work hard. Therefore we’d better keep working. Stay away from retirement, you are not a hockey player.