As WordPress continues to recycle old prompts, I pulled another prompt from The Coffee Monsterz Co to respond to today
Are you looking forward to retirement? Or, are you enjoying retirement?
Having hit the half-century mark, I am starting to hear some of my contemporaries talking about retirement. while the idea has crossed my mind, I’m not even realistically thinking about it.
I know I’m something of a late bloomer professionally, so I feel like I am just getting started. Truth be told, I love my job, I could not imagine myself doing anything else. And all the idea of doing nothing all day to sound rather enticing, I know that I realistically cannot afford to retire at this point in my life. At the rate, I’m going, I figure I’ll be fiscally stable enough to retire by the time I’m 127 years old.
I don’t wanna be that person, but right now my retirement plan is winning the lottery. I don’t have any plans to do anything like travel the world, or even attend all 30 MLB baseball stadiums when I retire because retirement just isn’t even in the picture for me right now 
And that’s the terrible secret of it all: I can’t afford to retire. Granted I know for most people the retirement age is 65. But I don’t know if I could even imagine myself teaching at 65. I consider people at 65 as “old people“. But looking at myself today at 50, I don’t feel as old as I perceived my parents to be at my age.
As quality of life and medicine and technology continue to improve, people like to say things like “50 is the new 40“ or “40 is the new 30” The problem is that people seem to keep pushing the retirement age well past 65. who knows? Maybe in 15 years I won’t feel ready to stop working.
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