Replying to a commenter what s important in retiremen…

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Pullman 85 says, I know people in their late 60s who are working and they're the happiest people. And yeah, that makes sense to me. I know people that are in their 70s, some of them even in their 80s, who continue to work and they feel like that's making them happy. And in some cases, it very well may be. For example, my dad, he worked until his 80s and he essentially died working. And he would have told you that that made him happy. And it's a little bit tricky when we talk about happiness, because had I not stopped working and had I not forced myself not to go back to work until I understood what was driving my desire to reenter the workforce, I would have kept working and said, working makes me happy. I do believe there are people who are happy working, even into their later years. I just wouldn't have been one of them. Work would have just been a way for me to medicate my racing thoughts and all the other things that kept me sort of emotionally dysregulated. It was best that I eliminate work as an activity, then replace that activity with something healthier for me. But I think a lot of people when they retire, they just aren't going to go through, through that exercise and they say, well, work served just fine as an activity before retirement. I think I'll just use it as an activity after retirement. And I don't fault them for that. It's the easiest and fastest way to find something to keep you active in retirement. And I say a lot on my channel. It's not really about being busy or being productive. It's about being active. If you want to stay healthy in retirement and some people choose to work as the way to stay active, and while it wasn't for me, it may be, you know, the right choice for other people. And a lot of people just aren't going to go through all the soul searching that I went through. And they're just going to go right back to what they knew worked in the past. And that's okay. If it really makes them happy.