Working for the rest of your life may sound unappealing, but 100-year-olds around the globe say not retiring is what keeps them feeling youthful and fulfilled.
My brother and I were both worried about our workaholic father when he was about to retire. He made so many projects for himself (genealogy of our family, writing a book, building a mechanical prototype, etc) that he always said he had not enough time in a day.
Not necessarily, as another commenter said they need something “fulfilling” to do with the rest of their lives. After you’ve been working for 50-60+ years, 5 days a week, 8-16 hours a day, and then you suddenly have every day free you don’t know what to do with the time. I’ve been unemployed a few times for a year at a time and after about 3-4 months it starts to get pretty boring.
My uncle lived to 100, he was completely healthy at 98 and would walk a mile or two a day around town, but broke his hip, the recovery process is practically what killed him because he could no longer be active every day. For like 6-9 months he just sat around, he’s muscles and mind atrophied, and the rest of his body started to “fall apart”, and he was never the same. He died about a year later.
Corporate propaganda
Probably but I feel there’s some truth to it. If you retire and sit on your ass all day, that is also not good for your health.
My brother and I were both worried about our workaholic father when he was about to retire. He made so many projects for himself (genealogy of our family, writing a book, building a mechanical prototype, etc) that he always said he had not enough time in a day.
Not necessarily, as another commenter said they need something “fulfilling” to do with the rest of their lives. After you’ve been working for 50-60+ years, 5 days a week, 8-16 hours a day, and then you suddenly have every day free you don’t know what to do with the time. I’ve been unemployed a few times for a year at a time and after about 3-4 months it starts to get pretty boring.
My uncle lived to 100, he was completely healthy at 98 and would walk a mile or two a day around town, but broke his hip, the recovery process is practically what killed him because he could no longer be active every day. For like 6-9 months he just sat around, he’s muscles and mind atrophied, and the rest of his body started to “fall apart”, and he was never the same. He died about a year later.
I have sooooo many fulfilling projects that I could be doing if I didn’t have to serve capital for food.
It’s a real shame how being used (aka employed) saps people of their individual time, labor, desires, projects, etc.
Stuff costs money and hobbies do get old after a while, but there is a lot of stuff you can do, you just have to be willing to do it.