Retirement – The ‘Golden Years’ (?)

I’ve already discussed most of my experiences since retirement previously. So, what exactly are ‘the Golden Years’ anyway? I’d heard about them for most of my working career. Not sure what I expected, but if ‘Golden’ was supposed to imply perfection and unbridled happiness, then the reality leaves much to be desired.

The reality is that I’m old, aging, declining every day. Sure, I’m not in as bad a shape as many of my age, but the decline is continuous and inevitable, despite the hopes and dreams of those convinced of practical immortality through their hoped-for ‘singularity’, however they’re currently defining it.

I’ve learned to live simply and fairly comfortably on Social Security, which isn’t much considering modern global economics and its current inflations and insistence on austerity, plus the determination of our ruling elites to cut and eventually eliminate Social Security altogether.

Fortunately, I’ve been fairly healthy, and haven’t had to bankrupt myself in the medical-industrial complex, at least, yet. Hopefully, when my ‘time comes’, I’ll just close my eyes and not open them again. I’m pretty sure that when that time comes, I’ll be content to be done with this perspective, this near century long ‘life event’.

Will there be anything next? I don’t know, nor do I care. No one knows, and anyone who claims they do is a charlatan… a baldfaced lier. While as far as any of us knows, energy/matter is indestructible, changing from one form to the other constantly, there’s no evidence that the consciousness associated with any of its forms lingers or passes on with those changes in state.

I was completely fine with not being aware of the billions of years prior to my birth. I’m content that I’ll be just as fine with not being aware of the rest of time after mine.

Liam Eddy –  Spring, 1947 to ????

End?

–LE – 8/12/24