A friend of mine is listening to an audiobook (“Dream Big” by Bob Goff) that poses some interesting questions. She shared a few of these questions and, after thinking about them for a few days, I thought I would share them (and my answers) in a blog post.
Who are you?
As Wayne Dyer would say ” I am a spiritual being having a physical experience.”
Where are you?
I (and my husband) are at an amazing point in our lives where we do not need anyone to take care of us and no one needs us to take care of them. Others occasionally do for us, as we do for them, but no one depends on us and we depend only on each other. At this point, retirement is a wonderful thing. This is our time to ponder life on a deeper level and enjoy each day as it occurs.
What do you want?
I want to spend the rest of my time here striving to reach my potential – physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
How many of your ambitions have been mothballed?
One, but it is out of the mothballs. My only ambition is, and has always been, to evolve as far as I can, in the time that I have here. That ambition was mothballed for sixty five years while life happened. Any personal growth that I experienced was accidental or incidental. Now that I am retired, it is my top priority. My days are spent learning and growing, embracing challenges, and clearing my mind to enhance my spirit.
Take care and have a great rest of your day! 😘
Seclusion 101 with AnneMarie 
My Aunt Sara was really disappointed in her Golden Years. You seem to be at the better end of the spectrum!
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A lot of people are disappointed. 🙁 I think having parents who really had a number of “Golden Years” kind of set the bar for me.
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Very thought provoking!
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I thought so…
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I Love this so much! It’s very thought provoking indeed…. I’m working on getting to my retirement hopefully in a few months! I’m excited to start this next chapter in my life! You are so INSPIRING!! 🤩💞
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You will love retirement, Diana. I am so excited for you. It takes a while to figure it out but it gradually sorts itself out. I. Sure yours will be an active retirement from the get go and that’s a good thing!
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Thank you! I am so excited and I think you are right, I’ll need to figure things out but I do know I’ll be very active with Murphy and maybe a part time job, maybe with horses! 🐎❤️
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At the end of the song, John Lennon whispers, “Good night, Sean. See you in the morning. Bright and early.” The lyrics of “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)” contain the famous Allen Saunders 1957 Reader’s Digest quote “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”. (Wikipedia) Now you are making up the time.
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Thank you, Derrick! I thought the hardest thing about retiring would be the boredom from a lack of opportunity to learn. I had no idea that I had so much to learn about myself. 😯
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Beautiful Anne. 🙏
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Thank you, Barb!
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Sounds like you are in a good place. We were till my 96 year old mother started failing.
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