Martha said:
Maybe retirees on this forum are without worries. But if you have worries about the future, what are they?
Apparently I'm blissfully ignorant. Life is good.
Money running out? Nah, we can barely spend it as fast as it piles up now. I'm really feeling the pressure from Cut-Throat and the "What are you saving it for?!?" crowd, but there's nothing we're interested in buying. Except for that small-cap value stock over here...
SWR? Not as long as it stays below 5%. Last year was barely over half of that.
Health? I'm sweating that constructively. I'm hoping to qualify for our dojang's black belt test (100 pushups in two minutes, 100 situps in two minutes, two-mile run in 16 minutes or better) before I turn 50. Only four-plus years left.
I do worry that I'll accidentally twist my right knee out of its socket before the sprain heals. But it's making me much more cautious about my tae kwon do sparring, and that can only help. Dealing with that sprain has taught me more in the last six months than I've learned in the last two years.
SS & Medicare? No, because the govt tells me there will be nothing to worry about.
I don't worry about our marriage. Why, have you heard something from my spouse?
I spend a lot of time grousing about our kid but I'm not worried about her. Occasionally I wonder why she has no short-term memory for any of the tasks I've assigned her, but she'll grow out of it because I'm sure I was never like that.
I worry about everybody's pensions, but apparently in the next 25 years there won't be any pensions to worry about. I worry that one day I'll wake up and find that my military pension is tied to my actual military performance. Or, even worse, my conduct.
I worry about having too much to do. That's probably a character flaw but there's just so much to do out there and I want to do it all!
I don't worry about making new friends. The ones we have already are doing fine.
Jury duty? Make me sit in that pool for a week catching up on my reading. When the lawyers find out I was in the military, I'll be outta there.