Well, it is finally dawning on me that I am not working now. Someone asked me yesterday if I was retired. To me retired means you are sitting in front of the TV, watching the Olympics, holding a can of "something" in your hand. Or it could mean sitting and enjoying the scenery while waiting for the fish to bite.
Retirement means a lot of things. I guess it could mean that we are busy, running around to get ready to leave the country for 18 months being missionaries. We don't have time to breath, but must keep running to be ready. Am I retired? I guess so.
Then that person said when I return and go to work for someone, I can just say I have come out of retirement. I wonder if those senior missionaries are working twenty four seven, enjoying their retirement in all the countries of the world. I guess retirement could just mean not working for someone else. If that is the case I start my retirement today.
I told someone, and I fully believe it today, I will never retire. I have too many dreams and visions to work on until the day I die. Retirement is not in my vocabulary, and I will not indulge in it.
We listed yesterday what we want to do today, the first day of my retirement. The list is so long I doubt we will be able to do half of it. If so, we should have gotten out of bed about 3, and be running until midnight. Well, we shall see, for we can divide and conquer, right. I am retired I guess. But I fear there will be no TV and no fishing, no can of something in my hand, and no retirement, just -tirement.
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