My Dream
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I've been living next door to my neighbor for 27 years. I'm 56, retired, neighbor is 64 and he hasn't said when he's retiring. In the past he's come home and met me in my driveway to say, he's had a really rough day and is really tired, other days, he's not feeling well lately and can't get motivated to do the repairs/renovations we talked about in the past and are in dire need of repair.
Well this last conversation caught me by surprise, it's his birthday today and after the old, "happy birthday" wishes I said "one more year to retirement huh". I say this because I know his house has been paid off for at least 15 years and he did mention once that he has about 300k in savings so I only assumed. His reply was, "I don't know........I think I'd be bored if I retired, I'd probably sit at home and do nothing, I don't mind going to work". I didn't know what to say, other than, " You mean you'd rather go to work every day then do all those repairs/renovation's that need to be done, plus you always talk about how you wish you could find the time to golf more". He reply was, "I know lots of people that would rather be at work then sit at home and do nothing, take my wife for example, she loves to go to work every day".
I'm not sure if he's not being true to himself, or me. Or maybe I misread the whole conversation and was out of line.
Well this last conversation caught me by surprise, it's his birthday today and after the old, "happy birthday" wishes I said "one more year to retirement huh". I say this because I know his house has been paid off for at least 15 years and he did mention once that he has about 300k in savings so I only assumed. His reply was, "I don't know........I think I'd be bored if I retired, I'd probably sit at home and do nothing, I don't mind going to work". I didn't know what to say, other than, " You mean you'd rather go to work every day then do all those repairs/renovation's that need to be done, plus you always talk about how you wish you could find the time to golf more". He reply was, "I know lots of people that would rather be at work then sit at home and do nothing, take my wife for example, she loves to go to work every day".
I'm not sure if he's not being true to himself, or me. Or maybe I misread the whole conversation and was out of line.
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