https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/10/85-year-harvard-happiness-study-found-the-biggest-downside-of-retirement-that-no-one-talks-about.html"Cultivate relationships."
Well, OK. I always did value my private time. Like Shelby Foote has said: "Parties are so boring." It's easier while you're a student. And there's nothing like working HARD together on a project to bring people together. I recall my days as a Camp Counselor in the hot Florida sun. Florida was a very different place, then.
I do not miss the invasions of privacy and the lack of healthy interpersonal boundaries and simple courtesy and respect during my career years. You want to study theology? Stay in Academia, don't become a pastor.... Retirement happiness? Sleep late, just because you CAN, now! Enjoy the time NOT spent in useless meetings with pre-determined outcomes. Go birdwatching, enjoy Nature. Watch your garden grow. Rejoice as new flowers and vegetables come up. Take your spouse to the Opera. And I'm lucky to have found a church where the music is beyond fabulous and exquisite. I can recall an organist where I served who could not even keep time!
I've moved around quite a bit. Don't let inertia keep you from going somewhere else, where there is more to do and see, and less bullshit. I don't need snow, but some folks enjoy it. I've had more than my share.
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Hey, is this how fake news starts. Old ladies repeat a "truth/memory" before they check it out?