A turning point in my retirement was when I realiz…

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One of the expressions I hear a lot about people who have just retired or they're planning on retiring is, I'm worried I won't know how to fill my time or fill my days. And I don't blame them for saying this. I thought the same thing. Now that I've been retired for a while, I've realized this fixation with filling our days doesn't make any sense. When I think about my fondest memories of things I've done, they're always times I've spent with Amy and the kids having laugh fests, where we were just like telling stories or whatever, and we just get to laughing. And I just, I remember those more fondly than any trip or any event I've ever participated in. And those things didn't cost anything. I often wonder like, where did we get this idea that we need to be doing these things? And I think that's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to think about how we can do this in order to create these memories, so we don't have these regrets later. And you know, my theory is that this narrative comes from the people who benefit from us doing those things. It's just the advertisements and, you know, other people are affected by that sort of cultural narrative. They say it and we start to believe it. And one of the things that I've thought about recently is I've known a few people who have done things that they've never done before. And you know, the, you know what they wanted more than anything else. They just wanted to go home. They weren't talking about the regrets over the things they haven't done or worried about things they won't be able to do. They just wanted to go home. They wanted to be home. And that's where we are now. So let's drink it in.