Replying to a commenter Lisah I struggled with this too…

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Nona Lisa tells me that they're experiencing work withdrawal having retired and that retirement hasn't been the dream they were expecting. And I certainly understand that. I experienced it early in my retirement as well. But what I realized was my dream wasn't actually my dream. It was really just an advertisement placed there by corporations. Once I replaced my dream, I could start living it. And I think for most people who find that their dream isn't matching up with the reality, I think they just need to switch up their dream. And this sounds like maybe kind of like giving up, but I had a buddy who was forever unhappy. Like I knew him since just out of high school and he was always, always unhappy. And, you know, we moved apart and he went off and started a career. And, you know, so did I. And I saw him like maybe a decade later and he was super happy. I was like, dude, what happened? Like you were always kind of down in the dumps. Why are you like, what changed? And he was like, my dreams were ridiculous. He said, I, he said, I needed to realize that what I needed to make me happy wasn't all the things I thought. And once I adjusted my dreams, I was happy. And I remember back then thinking, oh, so you gave up because I hadn't experienced it yet, but it isn't giving up. It's if anything, we're giving up a dream that's been placed on us by someone else. And what we need to do is find our own dream. One that hasn't been put there by people who have a monetary interest in our pursuit of that dream. Good luck. And I know you're going to find, you're going to find happiness because you're thinking about it and you're working on it.