Things we lose in retirement - variety

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One of the things I lost in retirement was variety. I'm not complaining, super happy, loved my retirement, but it's something to kind of be on the lookout for. When we start getting much more freedom in how we choose to spend our time every day, we tend to kind of focus on the things we enjoy the most. And so doing, we create a little bit of a, I'll call a comfort flywheel. You know, with each turn, it gets more and more momentum and it gets harder and harder to slow it down. And we find ourselves like wearing this sort of groove in our day of basically eating the same things, doing the same things, saying the same things. And we have to just be aware of that. Some people might say like, I'm perfectly happy eating the same thing, doing the same thing and saying the same thing every day. And that's cool. A lot of this may not be, and it kind of creeps up on you. So it's a good idea to say to yourself, you know what, I'm going to make sure I introduce a little variety back into my days, just so that I don't end up in that sort of comfort flywheel. Some people will come into the comments and say, my variety went up a hundred times when I retired because I began to travel and I, you know, I experimented with these different foods and, you know, I do all these things and that's great. I'm really speaking to the people who aren't naturally going to do that. People like me who don't really have, you know, a lot of desire to do a ton of traveling and things like that and can kind of get this sort of lack of variety, just kind of creep up on them. So something to take into consideration because you kind of get to do exactly what you like the most all the time.