Chapter 2 Chapter Two Come on!retire!

"Retirement", for ordinary men, is not always a happy thing, it is best to avoid talking about it.After finally working for most of my life, I was suddenly told one day: "You have worked hard, and you will not be needed here in the future"-do you think there is anything more unreasonable than this? ! From then on, the income suddenly decreased, and what was left was a lot of free time. Confusion and anxiety were inevitable.However, don't look at retirement so negatively, so pessimistically.Since it cannot be avoided, why not look forward, face it squarely and welcome it with a more optimistic and positive attitude? !

As mentioned in the previous chapter "The Pledge of the Platinum Generation", we can't just define retirement in terms of loneliness and desolation, but rather take it as a turning point and regard it as the beginning of a new life that is worth celebrating. In fact, retirement is a wonderful thing.Because from now on, you can be completely freed from the so-called social ethics and corporate regulations, so free and easy, how can you worry about it? Also, you who have been perplexed by your wife or your sweetheart so far, now you don't have to deal with the nonsense of "I or work, which is important?"-"Of course you are important", categorically Reply!

From now on, you no longer need to worry about the "big head" work troubles. You can look at your beloved wife carefully all day long, and let you chase after the woman you love every day; Doing endless "either-or" boring multiple-choice questions between self, career and wife-if you want to say happiness, is there anything happier than this? ! There is no doubt that after retirement, the time is rich in abundance.Just the thought of being able to spend your time doing something makes me so happy—well, get out and about, go fishing; go fishing if you want; golf if you want to.I used to want to do hobbies but didn't have time to do them well, such as photography, sketching, Go, chess, poetry, flower gardening, etc. Now everything is possible.

More than that, you can also calm down and study slowly - go to the university you have long wanted to live the addiction of reading; you can also make an appointment with your confidant, have a long talk, and make up for the regret left by the previous intense work rhythm . And maybe, people who don't feel comfortable without their titles.However, if you think about it another way, you can make friends more honestly and intimately if you are not an official.Maybe, the new friends and friendships I met after retirement opened up a new social situation for myself. In this way, while being keen on various interests and hobbies, it is different from the previous "vertical relationship" communication, but now making friends with "horizontal relationship" may also encounter different kinds of fun and alternative values.

Through socializing and making friends, I developed more new interests and hobbies, and as a result, the family became more lively. For example, in the past, I ignored my wife’s daily life, but now I have an understanding, and I can listen to what my wife and children say. Maybe I can reinterpret my wife’s humor and regain the joyful feeling of communicating with my wife. Thinking about it this way, retirement is not something to be pessimistic about. It is very possible to be completely liberated from the "vertical relationship" that binds itself and the narrow space of upper and lower levels.What I want to emphasize again here is: be full of curiosity and live a positive and optimistic life.No matter what you do, it is very important to always have a good mood.

Because of retirement, there are fewer people who come to give gifts and New Year's cards, so there are still many people who are lost because of this.In fact, those hypocrisy should have been abandoned long ago.It would be more meaningful than the New Year's cards that you get from the horizontal relationships you build after retirement.No longer need to stick to the past, as long as you look forward to live a positive and optimistic life, you can enjoy a wonderful second spring in life. Ah, what a retirement, I finally waited for it, "Well, I'm going to enjoy my retirement life"-only with such a happy mood, it is equivalent to having an appointment with a beautiful second spring of life.