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Boredom in Retirement! What Are you Nuts?
Only boring people get bored in retirement!
I think one of the most common concerns with retirement is boredom. Now if I worked, came home and watched TV… okay, that would be reasonable to think I would be bored. The fact is, you would be bored because you are a boring person. That doesn’t necessarily change once you retire.
We want to do something but put it off because we don’t have time or work shifts or can’t afford to. When the time comes and we do have time, no more shifts to work and kids are out of the house we may find our interests have changed.
We can’t just fill our time going for coffee with friends. This can be a scary proposition. You are going to have to really think about what you would like to do.
Some people start out doing quite a bit of traveling and you can research offbeat places, travel off-season and leave on a moment’s notice for a great price. You can’t travel all the time.
What can you do?
You can do what you want. The sky’s the limit. But I can hear you now… There are so many things at my age I can’t do.
Physical Health
That may be a clue that the first thing to do is to focus on your health. There are a lot of senior classes in rec…
