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Do You Still Think You’ll Retire?
Sorry, that was just a Boomer thing
Last week while my husband was home sick, he saw an elderly man pushing a utility cart of groceries down the middle of our street.
We could see that he wore a plastic boot to stabilize his left foot, and his left arm hung free, so he made very slow progress. And the weather was frigid and windy.
Because my husband is a genuinely good person, he wanted to run out and offer the man a ride, but he was the sickest I’ve ever seen him, and obviously infectious. So I stepped up instead.
I was just able to wrestle the man’s cart into the back of my small car and on the way to his apartment building, he told me he’s had two strokes that have affected the left side of his body.
That kind of future could be waiting for any one of us, and nobody is coming to save us. Certainly not the government.
I was once an optimist
Like many of you, I once assumed I would work hard until I was 65 and then I would head to a beach.
Hahahahaha!
Fun retirements, as it turns out, are largely a Boomer thing (and honestly, beyond the reach of most Boomers, too). It was never meant for Gen Xers like me, and…
