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User says, I'm in my third, I'm paraphrasing here. I'm in my third year of retirement. I still feel guilty about not working. It makes me feel useless at times. And this is exactly how I felt slash feel sometimes. And I'm going to challenge you to a thought experiment. And it's something that really helped me a lot. What if you are useless? So what I've done is I've convinced myself that I actually am useless. Because if you think about, well, what does it mean? What's useless mean? It means of no use to what? Of no use to others, probably, right? I was super useful to others for like 50 years. I'm not now. I don't want to be of use to anyone else anymore. I want to just be happy. I just want to relax, enjoy my remaining years. So instead of fighting the feeling of uselessness, lean into it and say, you know what? I am of no use to other people. And if you need to say I'm useless, say I'm useless. Now, I can't really, you know, obviously give you advice because everybody's different. But it helped me a ton to just say, huh, I think I'm kind of useless. And I just lean into it. I'm over it now. Good luck, though. And you're going to work through it because you're thinking about it. You're not just numbly staggering through your second phase of your work life and calling it retirement. So good for you for asking the questions and thinking about it. But just challenge yourself to just roll around in your uselessness and be cool with it.