Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Reporting...

We all know that being retired is a bit different than working.
And shall we suggest in which ways?
Why not… when you work you must get up at a definite time each and everyday that you do have to be there to be on time.
When you’re retired you don’t have to get up unless you really want to or your dog needs to go out or your significant other, house mate or spouse needs you to do something, now! Not too different either, hmm?

When you work even for yourself you have to answer to your clients or your boss, whichever pertains appropriately.
But when you are retired you only have to answer to your house mate or spouse or significant other, I see not too different, hmm?


Let’s see now when you work you get paid for that effort of your doing diligence daily and are rewarded with beneficial bonuses proving that you did a job well done!
When you’re retired if you have a pension and social security you get monthly and also get an annual COLA or cost of living adjustment according to how those agencies are working out…and so you can be slovenly all year long and still get it! But to be honest that is why you worked all those years for and let them take those monies out for, Geez, not too bad I guess and a sort of reward too!

Now if you work you are designated the amount of time you can take off for R & R, rest and relaxation, or holiday or vacation, hmm, somewhere between a fortnight and more than a month…
Being retired, well shall I go on, yes I think I will, you are always on R & R and Holiday and vacation!
And eventually you lose track of what day of the week it is because one turns into another and another and after a while you wonder, where are you and you wonder who you are, or is that whom you are?

And then you think is this really why I retired to have all this freedom; to be able to decide my daily fate, do what I want when I wanted to?
And you find yourself thinking, thinking, and thinking, very, very, very hard…. For an answer that won’t make you sound like… oh I don’t know, perhaps a complete babbling idiot and you finely decided on the proper verbiage to describe how it all makes you feel and you say…RELIEVED!
No more pencils no more books no more anyone’s wicked looks, and so it is very freeing! Being able to call your own plays… or not…
And sure some days are boring, but they’re your boring days for you, yourself and me!
Finding things to do sometimes is almost like working, since ‘they’, make it so darn hard to find out what the heck is going on and ‘they’, darn them ‘theys’, make it so you have to go when ‘they’ decide you can go, like on weekends or holidays when others who work can go too, boy!
Now is that really fair?
You betcha, and you wanta know why it is?
Because… it wasn’t that long ago that you were ‘they’ too and it was done for you also, got that?

On that more than confusing offering of how to report why we aren’t again so different … allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly to count all your blessings and share all those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

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