I was talking two days ago with a couple of friends and I asked them what was their dream, and the husband replied: To retire. To which I said: Did you have this dream since you were a child?And he confirmed this to me. I was amazed by this reply given that for me this is my worst nightmare but realized that this may be the case for many people.
So now I turn to you: whats your opinion on retirement?
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Retirement is an act of change and it seems very natural to dream of changes.
Don’t they say “life is what goes one while you prepare your future”. Shouldn’t the rat race be life itself? If you cannot do what you love you can love what you do. There is magic in acceptance.
Dear Paulo and friends,
I was surprised to learn how misunderstood the term ”retirement” is by the great majority of the young and middle aged members of the group.
There are a few exceptions such as Grasshopper, Daisybones, Zkadhem, Elise, Suzanne, Mimika Kirgios, Nicole, kealan, TK,and Abbas who comprehend that the majority of people retire from the paid work and definitely NOT from life.
To quote Abbas:
”Its absolutely amazing to read peoples comments and see how society has molded peoples thinking on retirement. A lot of the time its about having enough money to do the things we really want to do.
Society has created a situation where most people wake up everyday dreading going to work. You can understand how retiring therefore becomes a dream to these people trapped in their daily routines.
Paulo you are one of the lucky few that gets to live their dream through the work they do on a daily basis. I can therefore understand why retiring is a nightmare in your case.”
I guess that the majority of the contributors on this site are aspiring artists or writers, judging by the types and length of messages posted in the past.
Unfortunately only a few of us get paid for what we really love to do with passion and a lifelong dedication…..
Only a few people get immersed in ART and get paid for it…
Only a few people ”play” for a living
And even they retire sometime…….
Think about sports people or musicians to name but a few
But they only retire from their paid work…they don’t retire from LIFE
I’ve been in exports for over 33 years and traveled over a few Continents in order to educate two sons, born and brought up in the UK.
If I had saved all the Income Tax and all the National Insurance paid during my career, I would surely be a millionaire by now.
Recently I have retired from the paid work
I bought a house close to the mountains and I am doing it up to my standards. The orchard is huge and there is plenty of work with the apple trees, plum trees and eventually with preparing the brandy.
I surely did not retire from life
To be retired doesn’t mean to be on the scrap hip
I didn’t have time to visit all the countries I worked in, because of lack of time
Now I can do this.
Now I can visit your countries and if lucky enough to meet any of you, even buy you a cup of tea.
To me, retirement is to give up the ”rat race” the paid work and the chance to do some of the things that I couldn’t do in the past due to lack of money or time.
That’s what real retirement should be like.
May you all live long enough and be healthy enough to enjoy yours too
There are times like today I would retire at once – but I exactly know already after 3 or 4 weeks I would change my mind, because I will miss the children. And because I know this, I will go now in spite of everything with better humour to my class.
My boss is 75 years old and he is full of energy and what all believes that if he stopped working he will definetly will be sick. simply work keeps him alive as he feels he is of benefit to others. When my mom was retired she had a severe depression because she related most of her worth as a human being on her being able to work and be productive. Others are definetly worn out of work and would like to have a slow pace in their lives. so it differs from one person to another. for me, and if I still in good shape by retirement age, i think that unless my retirment would be associated with some kind of a plan whether family wise or travelling i’ll go crazy
I am 63 and have been asked multiple times, “When are you going to retire?” No one ever asks the question, “Are you going to retire?” or “What is your opinion about retirement?”
It is assumed (at least in America) that everyone burns with great anxiousness to retire and everyone SHOULD retire. I find this an astonishing idea.
Financially I could retire but I have no plans to ever retire. Perhaps I might change professions and switch from being a chemist as I have been for the last 40 years to something else; but I doubt it. I love being a chemist but it is because I have such an active life outside of work that it allows me to continue to love chemistry because it’s not the only thing I love in life.
I also love writing which is atypical for a “scientist.” However, I think blending both sides of my brain with precise science on one side and creativity on the other, there is such a feeling of being balanced that would be destroyed if I gave up one side or the other.
It’s a very interesting topic to discuss with others. I’m very curious about how I will feel, how others will feel in their 70′s, 80′s, and 90′s about the meaning of “retirement” to them.
Thanks for asking the question…and oh, by the way, you are NEVER allowed to retire. :) Without a future of more of your books, the writing arena would be missing a wonderful component.
I seem to live in a generation that works to retire. I don’t know if it is because I entered the professional arena later in life that makes me questions the ‘work to retire’ mindset. My grandmother is a wonderful example. She worked and retired from being a postmaster then proceeded to enter other fields of employment. She was a radio dj for a spanish station, exercise instructor, city counsel, and a classroom aide. Every time I observed my grandma in each element it seemed to bring out different gifts I had no idea she possessed. What a woman! I love my job and proud of the skills and gifts I use everyday. I hope I always long to suprise myself with unexpected gifts! Retire from one avenue only to begin another.
Lynette
Thanks for that.
Looks like I have to come-back onto that site to re-energise…
Paul Maurice Martin -
Your dream has been answered.
Love
Dreaming of Retirement isn’t an option if you want the world to be a better place.
it is a myth
Olá!
Eu acho muito triste alguém ter este sonho. As pessoas passam a vida inteira se desgatando atrás de sonhos que crescem conforme o tempo e que, na maioria dos casos, nunca são alcançados. Na realidade, acredito que são sonhos mutáveis e propositalmente inalcançáveis. Acredito que muitas pessoas tem o “dom” de se auto-sabotar. E acho que, viver para se aposentar, é um crime contra a alma.
Viver para, quando se aposentar, curtir a vida?! Paradoxo burro, sei lá…..A Vida é o hoje!! É o agora…..se aposentar?! Acho que nunca farei isso…….
Amo seu trabalho!
Boa semana!
Lia!
To dream of retiring since childhood! If only George Bush had had such a dream…
-Paul Maurice Martin
continuo perdida mesmo sabendo o caminho…..
nao consigo dar o primeiro passo…..
eu quero caminhar e preciso caminhar….
nao sei que força me paralisa mas sei que nao gosto dela….
tenho sonhos, vontade e desejos e eles são tantos!!!
sempre esperei que acontecesse comigo aquela virada que muda tudo pra melhor igual nos filmes, onde a mocinha toma uma atitude e faz de tudo pra mudar, logo, ela tem tudo que sonhou….
por que nao consigo dar esse ponta pé inicial na minha vida?
eu sei o que fazer mas por que nao consigo fazer…. estou sofrendo mas quero sorrir.
Pegarus!!! You summed it up for me!!! I loved your succint response!!!
You rock!
Blessings
Ah!!!! Retirement: -
Is that when ones life ends??? or is it an inane thought that precedes death???
Retirement is when my life is extinguished, I am no more and I have nothing left to give!
Wont happen! as my soul has to keep giving and when that is done I am dead.
Retirement is just not in my vocabulary!
I live to give another day! Ha!
Love and Blessings to all
Dear Paulo, I think that we will not ever retire from the work we love to do. And it’s important to love your work …
When I experience that people sabotage my work, e-mails vanish, my name disappears from mailing lists, I’m not invited to meetings, and things worse than that – I think: I wish I could retire.
But then I pull myself together and think: “When the going gets tough, the tough gets going!” So I will not retire. Yet. I have things to do. Poor people – and especially children – in the world need food and clean water, homes, protection and education. Maybe I get to contribute?
Dear thinkers,
i only want to express my wondering about the statement “i’ve been dreaming of retirement since i was a child”.Being tired of everyday life after years of working under pressure is understandable,but dreaming of being a pensioner is just sick.We all have dreams,at least that’s what i want to believe,but as soon as these dreams die,there is no reason to hold ourselves alive.Maybe it’s the fact that i am still young,that makes me oppose so strong,but this is totally wrong.Feeling dead for 40 years,hoping that you’ll be dead long enough to live about ten years…If that’s not crazy,then what is?
Retirement
I understand that it can be a dream, a dream of having time to do what ever. But what a luxiorius problem. I just hope that if you retire early you will do something important. There are to many children in need, hungry children, lonely children, our planet in deperatly need of help to survive. Just retire and give some love.
Alex
dear Paulo
I think retirement have a kind of good and bad aspect. When my mother was retirement after she had work her whole life in some point she felt happy to be in home and relax. But in another part of her was totally depress and toke her very long time to dont wake up every morning and think that she was late to work. I think is very important that retirement means only from one job in life and that u need to try to found some new job in home so u keep mentaly active and health.
Now i have one question that i always comming to my mind. Exist a “retirement” for artist? I mean, for example an actor can be retirement? Or a writer like u Paulo? Do you feel that someday u can be “retirement” of writing these amazing stories?
Muito Obrigado for all those amazing stories Paulo! Please never be retirement of writing about LOVE!
San xox
I have done everything the other way, I looked after my husband and children and am now at 43 starting out in a life which involves career, so for me retirement is something I do not consider just yet, but then again I do not think being at home and looking after husband and children is not working, specially when you live in other countries where you have to get by in other languages and customs and have no family to help out. At this moment I do not ever want to retire, I want to learn new things , do new things, experience new things every day until the day I die. I love to wake up each day and wonder what new things I will encounter today. I feel I never will get bored of learning something new with each new experience. I did not used to be like this, I have suffered from depressions and very unhappy times, but that is in the past and the most difficult one was being truly honest with myself, it is so easy to deceive yourself and to tell yourself a load of nonsense. The hardest think is to be absolutely honest with yourself to strip yourself of all the stories/excuses you have been telling yourself to make yourself feel good, to acknowledge the moments where you deceive yourself with “feel good” stories. To except who you are with your “mistakes” is a long learning process I believe, anyway I have left the track, but that is not uncommon with me, to talk about retirement. I hope and wish I will always be busy working in helping people and never retire with that. Just now it came to me it all depends what you understand retirement is, because people might have absolute different views on this again, what does one view retirement is, I suppose that is something each of us views in their own way, depending on what we have been through or what our live was like.
love to you Paulo who makes these “discussions” possible :-)
It depends on what is meant by retirement. If I was to no longer have to go to work. Not have to worry about paying the mortgage and feel like I had enough. I think then I would have a new life and be able to find time to concentrate more on the things that matter.
Retiro es el absurdo para aquellos que en su vida viven la vocación, el destino al que fueron llamados. La satisfacción de poder vivir uno haciendo lo que nos gusta es ciertamente gratificante y llena de increíbles experiencias. Ello es algo que se hace por siempre hasta pasar a otra vida u otro nivel. En cambio está el que se levanta, se sacrifica haciendo algo que no le gusta pero que puede dejarle una gratificación momentanea. Como comer, vestir, pagar y pagar o joderse para poder ver en un futuro que ya no tiene que hacer lo mismo por los últimos dos años de vida que le queden.
Dear All,
Retirement…If the desire/dream of a person is to retire, so be it. But I question what is the real sense of retirement for these persons?? Is this because they think they will stop working, thinking, worring, feeling????
Few years ago with my father (66 years old) we met a friend of him and had a coffee. It was his first week of retirement. I recall him a man full of energy, in movement all the time. He turned to me and said: “Do you have any job I could do?? I don’t want to get paid, I’m just asking you for smth to do.. I have money, I have my health, my family, but it is only the first week and the word retirement is killing me..”. I laughed, but inside me I felt his sadness..
I don’t want to dream about retirement myself, because the present is far more important..
Retirement! Well technically speaking retirement means a).withdrawal from one’s position or occupation or from active working life. b). a place of seclusion or privacy.
My boss today in the office enumerated to me a story that ran back into his youth days. His father was a very active and enthusiastic man always displaying a sense of optimism on his face. People in his village like to call him Pundit. He used to cycle down to his grocery store everyday.On his way he used to meet many people of his age and older and would exchange few words of charm. He had been doing this since last 15 years continuously. People in the village had gotten used to him. His sons had all settled down and were well placed in the society. He used to go to the shop everyday even though his sons asked him to RETIRE. Once somehow he met with a minor cycle accident and injured his knee. He was bedridden and for the first couple of days was restless. People around the village who were so used to seeing him everyday started getting worried about his absence. One elderly friend once visited his house on the third day and was surprised to find out about the situation. My boss, who had been home on vacation greeted the elderly friend and joined the old chaps’ conversation. The elderly friend looked at my boss and said mockingly, “Your old man has retired now.” Pundit immediately snapped back, “Yes I have retired only from the shop. God was watching me all these years when I had been busy building up my family. I didn’t have time to thank him even once. So now he has send me a sign. Now it’s time for me to remember Him and thank Him for being with me, even though I had almost deserted Him, through these years. Now it’s time for me to come out of my selfishness and thank Him by all the good I can do to this world.”
This is how I would like to define retirement.
Thank you.
Eu absolutamente amo meu trabalho. Ao mesmo tempo, eu nao me preocupo com o que vou fazer quando me aposentar.
Quando meus filhos eram menores eu passei anos sem trabalhar. Todos os dias eu ia caminhar, passava as tardes em uma das ciadades que e mais amo no mundo.
Comiamos fora e em casa. Via televisao quando queria. Trabalhar e otimo, mas a verdade e que com criatividade a gente se adapta a diferentes situacoes. Com tanto que voce esteja bem com voce e cercado de pessoas que te fazem bem, eu nao vejo a aponsentadoria como um problema, mas sim como uma etapa da vida.
Hoje em dia as pessoas gracas a Deus vivem com qualidade ate os 80, 90 anos. O negocio e se cuidar para chegar la e continuar a aproveitar….
E se tiver que ficar em casa vendo TV, e cercado de pessoas da familia, qual e o problema?
hello evryone
i amm 52.three years ago i was working as an executive for a large company,i had 300 staff reporting to me and i had a lifestyle many people desire, big house ,big car,smart restaraunts.but i was desperatly unhappy,the job was easy in many ways but i was forced to accept the bosses doing things i hated ,people who worked hard being blamed and sacked for things not their fault,people doing corrupt things and getting away with it ,if it increased profits.although i was a fitness fanatic who ran marathons and hiked regularly i began to feel unwell then i suffered a masive heart attack,i was at deaths door for three weeks.due to the hard work of the hospital staff i survived.in the time i was off work i realised i had injured myself for many years by doing things i found morally unaceptable.i realised that i did not want or need many of the material possesions i had.i resigned , ,in the last few years i have spent time with my family looking after my grandson 4 days a week(he is 2)we have a bond so strong now it will last forever.i have travelled to see my friends around the world,on a strict budget,walking ,playing music,and talking.last summer i walked the camino from st jeant to santiago,inspired by paulo,s books the most spiritually uplifting journey possible,meeting people from around the world, who enriched my life more than any amount of money ever could .now i am writing, poetry screenplays,stories i may never sell any of them but i dont care.my wife is so happy ,even though our lifestle is not wealthy now.she has a job she really enjoys.retirement for me has made me realise the most important thing is your family and friends,spending time with friends,doing things you believe in and walking under the roof of the blessed church of the open sky.
a kind of nightmare, now i must find a better way,means a better job maybe, to get more time to do more things, or maybe if i sleep less, i could get more time?? in fact i like to do many things..many and also to do nothing,just look at the sky,trees,birds ect…
I have just recently retired. Where does all the time go? Phew!!
Seriously, I agree with CM, I am 61 but I feel the same as when I was 30/40. OK the aches and pains are different but the mind is the same.
Be organised – it’s easy to put things off because you don’t have to( that was always my problem!!) Keep the mind active and enjoy the 3rd age. I am doing things I didn’t have time for, travelling, learning new languages (you don’t have to be young). Yes, pensions aren’t great but give thanks for what you’ve got. Above all no regrets. Its easy to say ‘if I had done…’ Thats the past- the future is ahead. ENJOY IT!!!
Before retirement peolpe are robots.
After retirement they are scrap metal.
PS: According to today’s system.
I dont think you need to retire from anything – if you are doing it with passion. Retirement is for people who are stuck into profession for the sake for livelihood. They work for 50-60 years and then one day, decide to call it quits – to do what they liked to do all their life.
Caro Mestre Paulo,
Obrigado pela oportunidade de postar algumas palavras a vc,uma pessoa que ajudou a forjar a minha essencia com seus livros e palavras.
Falamos de aposentadoria, sonho de muitos, pesadelo de outros. Em um mundo cada vez mais comeptitivo, exigente e sedento por resultados, aposentadoria vem de encontro a palavra “velho” ou “obsoleto”. Aprendi desde de cedo que devemos fazer o que realmente gostamos e se tivermos a chance de trabalhar com o que gostamos, é mesmo uma alegria, mesmo que não de um resultado financeiro satisfatório a ponto de enriquecermos.
Eu particularmente abomino a ideia de aposentadoria…o que seria isso? Um vida normal? Futebol, cerveja, churrasco e amigos no Domingo? Levantar da cama cedo mesmo não tendo compromisso com nada? Cuidar dos passarinhos? Já sei, alguem vai me dizer o pq nao participo de um programa social, ajudar o proximo. Seria essa a forma digna de terminar meus dias?
O dia em que não tiver mais força para o bom combate, prefiro ficar nas fileiras de retaguarda, ajudando os nemos experientes com minha vivencia, um tipo consegliere moderno. Aposentadoria requer um plano bem calculado, para que o termino de sua atividade profissional nao encerre a sua vida junto.
O meu plano de aposentadoria é nunca me aposentar. O novo pode substituir o velho, mas nada se compara a experiência.
Meu fraterno abraço
Dearest Paulo,
What is it about retirement you fear? Is it not simply another Dark Night?
If we were to define ‘retirement’, it simply means to stop working, usually due to age. In one sense, people of many professions fear retirement for the never-ending days that await them when they have spent so much of their lives in their profession and it has become all that they have known. They have not known what it is to live; to feel awakened by walking amongst the trees, or watching the sun go down over a lake or the ocean; to embrace the gifts God has blessed each one of us with so we can do more than just work, for work is merely a means to an end whereas living is what brings us joy, love and satisfaction in life.
When one thing ends, another begins, only it is up to us to use our initiative and trust in where we’re being guided to find what brings us most joy. And if for you, that means continuing to write then there’s no reason why you ever need to stop writing because I believe that is your Gift and that is something that will always be with you, no matter where you go or what you do in life – no matter how big or small your objective is. And I believe that is the same with everyone in life. We are all here for a purpose we may never fully understand but as long as we trust in our intuition and the guidance the universe provides, then we will always live a fulfilling and generous life.
I believe we all will find our way through our Dark Nights by trusting in God, our Guardian Angel and/or our Spirit Guide and most importantly, trusting in ourselves.
You have been the source of my enlightenment. Thank you and much love.
xox
Retirement for me is freedom, to don’t have resposibility to support the family, to do what I like with less concern about income.
This of course demands a system in the sociaty that provide for retired people.
Retirement for my father meant that no one longer needed him and he could do nothing of use and what he did didn’t have a purpose. For him, it was devastating.
I don’t think I will mind to retire when the time comes, but I feel no need to do so yet.
Retirement
Every now and then your are tired of what you do.
Wait.
But then, after retirement!
Every now and then you disagree with what you are supposed to.
Wait.
But then, after retirement!
Every now and then there is a faint feeling
of what you were once up to.
Wait.
But then, after retirement!
Every now and then there is a remote memory
of why you decided to be born.
Wait.
But then after retirement!
And finally the last day.
But what now ?
But what was I up to ?
But where are the dreams ?
But where is my purpose ?
Wait.
But then, after life…..
Retirement?? It need not be going into reclusion necessarily..Infact its like another journey when you can be all free from your responsibilities and spend time for your hobbies and other dreams…to your heart’s content..without having to worry about dead lines and promotions and hikes and market fluctuations etc…
I am all cheers for retirement…when I can go travelling to remote corners of the planet, be in my pottery studio for hours without a fuss…spend all the time with my grand children and everything else that I ever thought of.
I am retired and I don’t feel old, in fact I feel pretty light on my feet, is that a crime? Age is just a state of mind.
Enjoy your day! Take up the challenge!
Retired
Eternities ago, there was a window opening
the ceilings of my youth, a wormhole to a Star
unseen, split seconds presented as a pair of
wings, uplifting, ocean deep, a blue reminder
of a dream yet to be dreamt, taking my life
back to the womb it barely had outlived: was
it perhaps Your wish to take me back, because
my journey here had to Your Eye fulfilled Your
imprinted demand? I stayed, forgot about Your
Call, ignored the Love so generously poured
into my Soul and went to sleep, and so retired
I walked blindfolded, equally guided, and
with each step the window narrowed, leaving
only a faint and distant ray, forgotten scent,
the remnant of a slowly perfume, disintegrating .
And now, You’re here again, it’s through the
door You enter now, and no, no more can I
ignore, Your wish was not retirement for me,
there is a Life to live, and wings to spread, a
million waves to dance upon an ocean breeze,
I thank you then, and silently I recognize
sometimes it’s better to retire, to wind up, so
as better to give way to Life’s imprinted wire.
with Love, Rombout
Retiring seems to me to be very dangerous – life shortening.
If it is put up as “THE GOAL” of life – of everything, you can only end up in misery once you reach it – as nothing else is left to “achieve”. People then get sick, get problematic (turn to analyze and interfere with other people’s lives due to being so bored), die sooner, I guess.
A good vision of myself in old days is making money (little, just as much as I need) with one of my hobbies, photography for example. When I can take a whole day just to make one little thing perfect. Or help the younger ones, help my children out, my grandchildren… sounds great so far.
I think first of all that true freedom is to be found in one self and not in the outside world. And I think one should create their own circumstances in such a way that one feels free.
I think the excuse of having no money to do what one wants is a lie. It is just fear that stop people from doing what they want to do.
For myself: I like to travel, so that is what I do. I work where I want to be. This way I lived in Africa for 3 years, working in hotels and being a cook on safari trips for tourists. Now I want to study and paint and write poems, so now I work in a hotel because I love meeting people and that leaves me enough time to do the other things I want to do now. And when you love something promotions come by itself…I’m a manager now and have no education for that whatsoever, nevertheless I train people that go to hotelschools every day. Next to that I make some money so I can still travel around…so that is what I do. I think a problem might be that a lot of people take jobs out of carreer point of view, or for the reason that others expect them to take certain jobs, instead of doing what you yourself truly feel like doing. NO FEAR!
Retirement…. I never even thought of that!
retirement is my father’s dream too. he said, “im working hard now so we will have something when i retire, and so i can just sit and watch all of you.”.
so i would think that would be a dream for “tired” people. tired in a sense that he has been working all his life for the people he loves, and that he wants to retire so he can relax and do something, or things he love, finally for himself and for my mother. without the stress of tuition fees, allowances and bills.
not that he does not want working for his family and relatives, but just to finally see what he has, that he might have missed, after working so hard.
Live every day like it is your last one…
I always joke up with this term but, in truth, retirement does not lead to a sense of either freedom or relaxation, although sometimes a job which is not the one we dreamed of in years gone by might induce one to feel so … It’s the way of life one lives that will mirror in his/her retirement. As someone else said before, we should live our lives in the now not planning what we may be able to do when that time beckons…..Still,those dreams and plans help us to endure these working days :-p
I will be retired when i am arrived on the doorstep of Heaven!
Retirement….
There is nothing much to say!
The day my three friends will retire which are happiness, love and satisfaction; I will take my retirement.
I pitty all those who wish for retirement as their life is probably continous suffering.
I like my job, though it is not dream job, I like it enough that I did not retired two years ago when I could. Still I am glad that in few years I’ll have more free time then now as there are things I want to do that can fill 48 hours a day…..
But there are persons that are afraid of retirement and for them it is nightmare, in my oppinion that is the real problem.
Retire? Retire from what??? I am with you my friend. I am so not conventional. Should I admit that. Work to me is fun, yes challenging at times but it is my passion. Why would I want to retire from my passion???
De meeste mensen hebben een job die ze niet graag doen.
Omdat deze geen uitdagingen bevatten ,ze hebben de moed
niet om te veranderen van werk.Het is veilige manier van handelen
Ze vinden het vervelend in wat ze doen.Dat is de reden dat mensen staan te popelen om met pensioen te gaan.In dit leven zijn geen zekerheden.Ik probreer zo lang mogelijk te werken zolang mijn
gezondheid het toelaat.
Most of the people they have a job they don’t like it, because
it has no challenges,most them has not the courage to change it,it
is also safest way to handle.
They are bored what they are doing.That is mean reason they want
to go in retirement.But in this live they are no securities.
I try to work as long as possible if the healht it permit.
My dream is to have a career from which I do not want to nor need to retire.
I already had a job from which I could have made a career in the conventional sense. Working 8 hours a day, getting promotions, becoming more “important” within the company by time, etc… but for me it was never nothing but the means for paying rent, until I could get into university and study photography.
The following summer after quitting and starting my studies, I took a short-term job in a factory’s canteen – I was washing dishes of the same big bosses I used to talk sophistically on the phone with… but to me there was no real difference between the two jobs. Both were only jobs, that even payed me pretty much the same amount of money.
Upon mentioning to my dad the funny change in the way in which I was serving these big bosses, he asked me why won’t I take a good job from which to make a career and do what I really want on my free time.
But there is no such thing as a “good” job, as long as its doing something else than what my heart desires. Washing dishes makes me sweatier than talking on the phone, but at least my head is free to think what ever it wishes. Sitting in front of the computer, talking on the phone makes my butt go number than when standing up washing dishes, also I had to put my brain into use and save my own thoughts for the brakes. That’s the main difference.
I told him it does not work that way. That would be lying to myself. I would never end up doing what I really want, as by time I would find less and less time for it, and eventually I would start dreaming of retiring so that I’d finally get to be who I am. I want to be me now and all of the time. And I believe I can.
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