What goals are realistic for the newly retired? Drive to Texas or Florida every winter? They're great places to see, and great places to play in, but they are not the kind of goals we were taught at a young age, they're simply time fillers for the aimless.
Even retirement is taught to us as a goal, the final goal. Nothing comes after it. Did anyone at your retirement party ask you what your new goal in life is? Or did they ask you how you were going to fill in your time? Travel? Golf? Bird watching? Ballroom dancing? A little workshop in your garage?
Harmless pursuits. Things to keep you busy until.... Let me ask you, did anyone say to you when you were sixteen. "Why don't you quit school? After all, you might be dead in five years!" No, of course not. It was statistically improbable. Never-the-less some sixteens die by the age of twenty one - Should all sixteen year olds have set there goals based on the uncertainty of death? No. And we shouldn't either! MORE TOMORROW
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