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Originally Posted by tghoul
I retired at age 51, it has been a great 23 years so far.
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Yeah, Baby! I'm with you. Unfortunately for me, I couldn't, but would have loved to. But, what's good for you and me, isn't necessarily right for everyone. We all have to find our own answers to this question.
I had a customer (patient) who by the time he retired was too damaged physically to do the things he'd envisioned. Six months after I retired I got up in the middle of the night to drain the bladder, and suddenly, out of nowhere, felt a pain in my right thigh like a flaming arrow to the bone. I was down on the floor, and one of the thoughts I had was "I don't want to be like (that guy). I'm OK now, living my retirement dream and all, but ...I was pretty scared.
We make the decision to continue working, or to retire, often while we feel young and frisky. Most of us worry so much about running out of money that we cut ourselves short on the good years. But man, it's hard to cut that cord. Really hard.