What to do on the first day of retirement?

The U.S. Retirement Association once published an interesting article on its official website, titled "What to do on your first day of retirement?" This article lists several suggestions, including: sleep until you wake up naturally, enjoy a rich breakfast at a nearby cafe, start doing what you have always wanted to do, call and invite retired friends to have dinner together, etc., but the article also specifically reminds you: Don't go to the park bench to stay out.

Many people are in a particularly good mood on the first day of retirement, "Wow, I finally liberated and finally free. From then on, there is no need to look at the boss's face anymore!" However, this kind of good mood usually lasts only for three, five, or ten days. Then, facing a lot of free time, I start to feel so relaxed. I wait for breakfast to dinner every day, and stay up from night to dawn, and I feel like I am living like the year.

{9 Through research and observation, Canadian retired master Lyni Chalinsky, author of Overworked, found that most people would often admire the time when they no longer need to work hard, and regard "having a lot of free time" as the ultimate goal. However, many people made the same mistake: they were not ready to face plenty of leisure time, so they fell into it!

"This is a kind of mistake in life. It treats retirement as a way to avoid work pressure," Ernie Chalinsky pointed out in pain. "Even if there are sufficient conditions in terms of financial and physical strength, how to relieve leisure time becomes the biggest burden." This is not a dangerous statement. The United States has made a statute that men's self-kill rate during retirement is four times higher than any other stage. Lynny Chalinsky made a simple conclusion: "It is a tragedy to not retire, but it may be a tragedy if you wish to retire."

Going forward in the direction of the heart

Oscar winner Jack Nicholson starred in the movie "About Schmidt" in 2002, and the story begins with an impressive scene. On the last day of work on his last day on his retirement, Mr. Schmidt sat in his packed office, staring at the clock count on the wall, and when his fingers were stuck at 6 p.m., Mr. Schmidt put up his briefcase, walked out of the door, and officially told his career.

Mr. Schmidt began to spend time at home, doing nothing all day, feeling bored. He kept getting up at 7 o'clock every day, accompanied by his unchanging crossword game and his old wife who had been tied up for many years. Unexpectedly, not long after, his wife suddenly died of sudden illness without warning, which made his life even more deserted and lonely. Schmidt felt that he needed to find something to change his life, so he decided to sponsor a charity organization and recognize an African lonely Ndugu, and often wrote letters to Ndugu.

One day, Schmidt suddenly had an idea and returned to the site where he had been to work, and took the initiative to propose some "guidance" to his young successor, but he changed a bucket of cold water, and the young people were not grateful or sympathetic. Schmidt's hot face was covered with cold buttocks, and he took the rest car to travel alone with a disappointment. He went to a place where he had lived, which aroused a lot of reminiscence, and also went to visit his daughter and son-in-law. He found that his daughter's marriage was not happy, the mediocre son-in-law and the uneven family atmosphere. Although he was worried about his daughter's future, he was not very capable, and his daughter even thought he was too careless. A feeling of "strong and unnecessarily needed" was deeply over Schmidt. During the journey, he kept writing letters to the African lonely man who lived in love with the past, and talked about the uninteresting life and confusion. After the trip, Schmidt returned home and unexpectedly received a reply from Endugu. The letter was accompanied by an innocent and innocent picture "Big Hand Turns on Small Hands". The big hand represents Schmidt, and the little hand is Endugu. Looking at the words and lines of innocence that are full of childish color, Schmidt was as refreshing as rain. The expression of the end of the movie's mirror on Mr. Schmidt's face: the original bitter melon face turned into a smiley face.

Mr. Schmidt has worked very seriously and has never thought about how to live a good life when he is not working. Endugu allowed him to regain the value and meaning of life. When he did not ask for a reply to others, he received positive feedback and made him feel that he was needed. Schmidt's wandering heart finally found a stop in an African boy who had never met.

Since 2016, Taiwan has added an average of 100,000 "Mr. Schmidt" who retired from his post every year. Do you think they are all ready to face the next life? Unfortunately, no, most people are like Schmidt, and their hearts are always wandering and unable to find a stop. Of course, it is impossible for everyone to consider African orphans, but they always have to find something to do in order to "digest" a lot of free time.

Chalinsky, a retired 71-year-old, listed a list of more active activities, including writing, reading, sports, dancing, walking, painting, playing music, choosing courses at community colleges, etc., because this type of activity can make people's limbs and brain use, which is more exciting and satisfying than watching TV and slimming, and can also maintain a better physical and mental state..

Chalinsky suggested that if you are over 50 or 60, or even 70 or 80, you should still choose a positive lifestyle. As long as you are not unable to move your limbs, you should not take age as an excuse and give up the positive activities. Otherwise, it would not be a yearning year to urge you to grow old, but a yearning year to urge you to rush!

Where are you? What to do on the first day of retirement? Where should I go to the direction of my heart? If you lose the attitude and enthusiasm to pursue a resilient life, it is definitely caused by laziness!

Book Introduction

Legendary Happiness Course: Designing Your Second Half Life

Author: Wei Huijuan, Wang Mei

Publisher: Sibo Yuwen Creation

Publishing Date: 2020/08/07

Author Introduction

Wei Huijuan: PhD in the Institute of Education Administration and Policy, Minnesota University, USA, currently professor of the Department of Adult and Continuing Education at the National Chungche University and director of the Center for Advanced Education Research.

In 2007, the first high-age research center in the country with education and learning as the main axial level was established in university; in 2008, the theory, structure and training mechanism of Taiwanese aging learning by the Ministry of Education was established, and the "learning" was continuously advocated that "learning" was the key aging strategy; in 2015, We began to focus on the development of the Leather Life Design Course and Research; in the second half of 2019, a Leather Learning and Care Site, which is recognized as "star" was launched at the Leather Leisure Farm in Xiangcaoshan Leather County, Chiayi County. So far, we have been constantly studying and developing independent health management courses that can "strengthen" and "revitalize the brain". It has the name "Mother of Taiwanese Age Learning".