It took me a while to realize I was sort of beatin…

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Retirement doesn't need to be a non-stop fun fest. I did a post a little while ago where I talked about how retirement doesn't have to be about productivity and busyness and you know, trying to feel like you need to be productive and useful all the time. Well, now I'm going to come after fun. We'll see if I get the same reaction on this one. But one of the things that happened to me when I retired was I started feeling guilty that I wasn't having enough fun. I'd sit around and say like, man, I could be out fishing right now. Or man, I could be on my motorcycle. I could be, you know, out on a boat or I don't have a boat. But you know, I could rent one or whatever. But I would be thinking like all of these things I should be doing to have fun. And it was because I had this sort of misguided idea that when I retired, I should be having fun. And I was like, well, I'm going to have fun all the time. And I've kind of settled into the concept that I'm going to have about as many quote unquote experiences in retirement that I had when I was working. Like I don't need to be doing all these, you know, quote unquote big things all the time to feel like I'm making the most of my retirement. So what I've decided is, you know, I'll probably do like one cool vacation a year. And, you know, like the usual amount of fun things. You know, throughout throughout the year. But I've stopped sort of beating myself up or not constantly having fun. And that's a weird thing to think about when you think about retirement. Like to say like, well, one thing you should be careful of, you know, don't feel guilty about not having enough fun all the time. But it is one of those things that you have to get your head around. Retirement doesn't have to be having fun all the time. Just, you know, being happy. Being content. And fun will happen.