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Are you living your perfect day?
It’s one thing to talk about an outrageous retirement lifestyle. It’s another thing altogether to have one. It isn’t that living full out is hard. The rewards alone more than justify the work it takes. The big problem is that society doesn’t expect or encourage stepping our of the normal patterns. Society doesn’t provide inspiration or encouragement. Older people are treated like cute irrelevancies, amusing at first but then just a drag on your time and attention. Modern society likes tidiness. There is a place for everything and by golly, everything should just stay in it’s place. For seniors, that place is the retirement community, a refuge for old people that keeps them away from the real world and keeps them diverted with mindless activities and spared from the responsibilities of normal life and frees up regular folks to go about their business. [continue reading…]
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