Living a Life of Purpose after Retirement: 10 ways to measure our lives after retirement
Retirement is often looked at as a reward for a long working career, and an opportunity to do what we want when we want. But is retirement a cultural concept?
Are 'the born-free' changing the meaning of retirement?
When I was young, I were told that retirement was fun, with all the packages that had to come with it, the Gold watch received after working our tails off to get there, or the retirement package which most of the businesses or industries today no longer go along with it (pension funds)
I don't remember my father receiving a Gold watch after his retirement, or did he even go for retirement?
I don't remember my old folk going for retirement or even heard him speak of it, I guess that's because he worked in a different sector where they don't offer any package at all.
Yeah, right my father worked as a panel beater, not far from where we lived, and his boss was a regular dude ¬ all dressed up in greasy overall. I don't even think he even knew anything about the compensation fund or Retirement Planning.
But that's not the point of my paper, the question that has been troubling me all along was:
'Why don't people pick a life that has no end, a life beyond the one we are currently living, or what is beyond our imaginations?'
Think of it, A life that is full of excitement after retirement from the corporate, or wherever we worked our lives off.
Okay, Marcus enough said about your imaginary world, people have free will, everyone can choose the kind of life they wish to live or experience.
What's the point of your paper?
Thank you for reading until this far. I wish to share with you my discoveries working as a Retirement Planner for young dudes like me.
I had discovered that there is a life after the paid work which we are so custom to it and that they can be a life followed by a life of a gift, study, and homework (I'm not referring to the homework 'writing assignment or school work') these are other forms of work that can be much rewarding than the one measured in dollars amount [The paid work]
"The end is not the end until we wish our self-done"
People are more productive in their late 60, 70 & 80 years of old because we are only old, the day we wish ourselves old.
In the old economy, our parents went to work not because of the work but because of the pay, and in the new economy, we sought to go to work not because of the pay but because of the work itself.
We don't have to be retired the same way our parents did, and most of all to retire poor with regrets is only a wish we wish for to ourselves; there can be more to life than the end of it.
Through my studies and research, I found interest in the new meaning of life and The meaning of retirement.
The is a new set of case laws, some new models for success and numbers.
We can measure our lives after retirement by the following:
- How many young people we have coached?
- How many paintings are finished?
- The Gardens were planted. Books read or may be written.
- How many patients are driven to hospitals?
- How many school trips did we organize?
- What moments of quiet did we catch?
- Which fireside chats have we treasured?
- What special meals did we enjoy?
- Letters written or photographs framed.
- Friends counselled, and love kindled.
Life can be much broader if only we could realize that there is life after we been retired.
Let us treasure the moments and make them the most beautiful ones for others and most of all for ourselves.
We can build a life so deeply satisfying that we can never want to retire from it, and it can be possible if only we understood what retirement means to us.
Eventually, we will all stop working/serving due to physical limitations. Yet God still provides us an opportunity to impact caregivers etc. As our world decreases in size as we age, we can either lament what we lose or embrace the opportunities God provides to have an impact for eternity.
What's your definition of retirement?
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