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If you follow my channel at all, you know that I'm basically documenting my experience in transitioning from the work world into retirement. I kind of share just what I've gone through or am going through. I recently realized something that I went through, but I wasn't really aware of it while it was happening. What I discovered started happening was my perspective started changing. Things that I thought I believed my whole life, I started questioning. My first instinct was to double down on what I'd already learned and been taught and essentially programmed with. But because I'm this constant fretter and noodler, I had to just kind of keep thinking, like, well, is that right? Is that right? Is that right? Eventually, what I discovered is when you get into retirement, if you're an open-minded person, you should expect your philosophy on a lot of things to change. And it's going to be hard because one of the things you'll realize is that you were wrong about a lot of things. And those decisions have already been made. And the actions you took based on those decisions have already been taken. And there's not much you can do about that. For me personally, I would rather just face it and know, like, oh, it looks like I was wrong about those things. Oh, it looks like those decisions I made were not good decisions based on what I know now. Than just double down on the bad decisions and the bad thought process. And then I'll just keep going. And I'll just go back to those bad processes that I had as I was growing up. And just sort of stick my head in the sand. So, something to be aware of when you retire. You will possibly, I don't know if everybody goes through this, but you will possibly start paying more attention to, like, your philosophy and your sort of guideposts in life. And because you have more time to pay attention to these things, your mind may change on some things if you'll let it. And then you'll have to reprocess all of that. And then you'll have to reprocess all of that. All of the decisions and actions of your life. And I don't look at it as regret, And I don't look at it as regret, I look at it like, I know what I know, now. I am who I am now. In ten years, I'll know something different, more hopefully, And I'll be someone different. And you only see me As who I am now. You didn't see me as who I was then, And you probably won't see me as who I will be. And you probably won't see me as who I will be. But, as we're in the moment, But, as we're in the moment, embrace, okay, this is who we are now. This is what we know now. What are we going to do with it?