From the amount of presents I was given, I wonder whether I would be missed or good ridden to an old man.
Being in an institution for 30 years, you just have to leave your footprints on the sands of time.
Yours sincerely was compulsorily retired last April. Two weeks after that the new retirement age was set optionally at 58. Friends rang to express their "condolences" that I miss the new offer. Well, think about this. Are those having to work the lucky ones or unlucky ones? We are so caught up with consumerism and production to equating waking hours with work and work and productivity, and that leisure is a waste and sin!
Yours sincerely cannot be seen in town during working hours. Every kind advice point to the fact that retirees have to take up any gainful employment. And that not working is a health hazard, physically, mentally and spiritually. Threats of becoming insane and even early death have been hurled about. The glory of work seems to be the virtue.
At the rate some people slave, I just wonder what they are going to do when they retire! Those who curse and swear at every working hours and watching the clock, and also those who have been "mc-ing" their work days (absent from work backed up by false medical certificates) are also so prepared to extend their retirement to 58! All for the glory of work!
Anyway, I am enjoying very minute of retirement with so many things to do and so much time doing it. At last, the promise to the physical body to stop work at 55 then 56 came to pass. Life is three scores and ten years. How much have you lived it? Or survive on a daily basis?
3 comments:
Hey I love your Blog name!! Very Biblical!!
Good thing for retirees, "blogging" only fingers & the mind (keeps away Alzheimer's) need to work. OLD guys can't afford to get too physical!! Good show man!! Linking to your blog. Have fun.
Stay safe within HIS flock
Peter- so u read my blog. Tks 4 reading the rantings. Hope 2 do more and not dies off after Esther goes 2 KL!!
I agreed with u, are those working until 58, lucky??? Are we born to work until we die??? What a meaningless life! When we retire at 55 or 56, we have only another 20 to 25 years to really live our life (if we live that long). I really admired Mrs. Chuah, she knows how to make her life meaningful. So don't bother what people said, "Happy Living"
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