Imagining life without work

It is very nice to imagine that you will live a life without work and work pressure. However, there are a lot of changes if you live a life without work. Let us imagine how you will live without work before you plunge into the life of retiring young.

Then we look at how you can really enjoy your life without work. It is not what you think. It is indeed paradise on earth.

Let us first move on with the less pleasant case.

01 Be realistic about life without work

After a person retires, he loses his job and his original social status. He has no platform and no conditions for value exchange with others. Therefore, others will no longer need him. He usually ends up with a sense of loss.

In life, he will inevitably have to go through some changes.

Loss of exchange

When you leave your job, you will find that your colleagues and friends who were once good friends quickly become alienated from you and gradually stop communicating with you.

All kinds of relationships in life, even family relationships, require benefits to maintain and money to operate. After you retire, many of the various feelings that arise from having beneficial dealings with you will fade away until they become ruthlessly alienated because they have nothing to gain from you.

No permanent friends, only permanent interests. Friendship is like this, and so are other relationships. The essence of interpersonal relationships is value exchange, interest exchange, and mutual help. Relationships between adults are based on interests.

Do not blame others for being hypocritical. In fact, people are all the same. This is human nature. Ask yourself in your heart, will you give unreservedly to someone who has no value to you?

People are realistic. People who do not care about their interests are few. Well, do not let this bother you. The key is to make yourself happy.

Time is changing, people’s hearts are changing, all kinds of friendships and family relationships are changing, but the only thing that remains unchanged is your own heart. There is no such thing as a banquet that lasts forever. As a retired person, you should not worry about these unnecessary trivial matters.

To us, it doesn’t matter. If you look at it a little more, your life will be happier, more comfortable, and more at ease.

Sometimes children may not be reliable, let alone other people. At critical times, your wife must be the most reliable by your side, so you must be nice to your wife.

Of course, we do not rule out having true friends. Such people are rare and hard to find, so please cherish them.

02 Envision your life after retirement

If you are thinking about retirement and wonder what will happen after retirement, perhaps you can engage in a role play simulation of retirement life.

You ask yourself: “How will I live if I retire?”

Do I have to watch The Devil’s Hands every day and play chess online?

Can I often go out and be crazy, fall in love, have a group fight, dance a hip-hop, run a marathon, jump Go wild once, fly a plane once, do all the things my dad never did when he was young?

01 Simulate your life after retirement

Run a simulation of your life after retirement. Be realistic with your present situation and your personality. If you will not climb a mountain, do not simulate it.

You may read about health products, wellness, and pyramid schemes that often appear in the news.

You may study various issues such as elderly care, domestic violence, inheritance division, elderly people who have lost their only children, geriatric diseases, children’s education, elder abuse and related topics.

Consider who will take care of you if you get sick.

Consider whether you should stay married or get a divorce that is due you.

Health is important, both physical and mental health. If your physical health is low, you will struggle. If your mental health is low, you will become fragile, hysterical, nagging, depressed and so on.

You must develop good living habits.

02 Beware of elder abuse

When you retire, you may be young or you may be an old folk. If you are an elderly person, beware of elder abuse. It is as common as child abuse.

Elder abuse is a big problem. People do not understand and do not pay attention to the elderly.

For example, the recent case of a nanny who abused an elderly person to death may be because the children did not pay enough attention to the elderly.

“The old man was abused by his nanny, how could his children not know at all?”

When you retire, set up a procedure so you will avoid elder abuse.

03 Learn to communicate well

Communication is equally important. Although the goal is somewhat slim, you should learn to communicate with the young. The young will be impatient with older people because the older people are slower mentally and physically.

You may be unhappy when they see young people staying at home, not working, and playing games every day. At this time, you may choose a strategy to nag him to improve your own mentality. but the relationship with the other person will be spoiled. You may also choose to endure it, but you will feel very unhappy. This is the reality.

However, you do not have to stop here. You may have to earn to communicate well with increasing intelligence.

This may become your only choice.

04 You are unique

Aging is an experience that everyone will experience, but no one can truly understand it until it actually arrives.

The simulation process that you experience is a learning process and a process of awakening. Some people will find it interesting, some people will find it scary, but you will at least want to experience it and learn from the old experience.

Use the simulation in a way that uses empathy to allow you to make changes in your lives before it really happens.

05 Be on the alert

An old man and an old lady lived together, living together but without a marriage license. The two of them speculated and invested in stocks together with the same account. They lived a pretty good life.

The old man died half a year later, and his children swallowed up all the money. The money was said to be the old man’s inheritance, and the children kicked the old lady out of the house.

The old lady went to sue the old man’s children, but she had no legal ground. It was difficult for her to prove that the money belongs to her.

03 A brief summary

We think retiring early is a good choice for most people, and we urge you to make early preparation for retiring early.

We do not focus on financial preparation because it is not the real purpose in life. Instead, we ask you to envision your life after retirement realistically. The best way to do it is to use a simulator, perhaps in the form of a simulation game.

Enjoy your life in the land of the free.

End of part four of the series of posts on early retirement. Read more on our website: https://mustang.press

Or subscribe to new posts by giving us your email: