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RE: Being grateful for the struggle
true fact. people who retire lose purpose if their life revolved around work. its a struggle to refocus and decide what is worth fighting for, or giving energy to. retirement is the 10th most stressful thing in life, and for many leads to depression, declined health from less activity, loss of social contacts. retirement takes planning and work, not just financially but psychologically. so in essence, we are merely trading one set of struggles for another. anyone who works tends to look at retirement as freedom, and cannot see that most of the struggle takes its toll at a mental and emotional level.
I often think that I will never truly retire... I'll change careers, if said things even exist by that time... but retire? what for?
Give me a million bucks and I'll retire! There's so much more I'd rather do than work, like visit all the continents and all the countries in the world :)
I doubt you would... you would probably be doing something... maybe not for profit, but something... so its not retiring, more like just following a diff path
Yeah, just not for money :) Once the part of living (shelter, food, health, ect.,) is taken care of (for life) yes. I'll be doing something (always). To sit there and be "retired" from the world is boring.
well, retire in a sense that you do what you want and are not there to make money out of financial necessity when you'd rather be doing something else. if you want to be working, its fine. some people do volunteer work, its still work. if i had the money to travel the world and never work again, i would.