BONUS BLOG: retirement bucket list?
Seven years of retirement are somehow already in my rearview mirror.
Here’s one of my favorite columnists wiping unexpected fog off that mirror and pointing at the road ahead —
EXCERPT: A bucket list seems to work for a lot of retirees with enticing menus of things to do before they kick the bucket. It can be a valuable motivating tool to keep active.
But what I want to do in my next decades—beyond the joys of retired daily life—doesn’t fit typical definitions of a bucket list, like this one on Merriam-Webster.com: “noun: a list of things that one has not done before but wants to do before dying.”
I’d rather not reduce my life to checking boxes in retirement. Checklists are what I do to complete chores and move on. And for decades, I ticked my way through to-do lists as a way-too-busy teacher, professor, administrator and parent. Not going to do that anymore.
Of course, there are things I want to do over the next years. I hope to develop a habit of calling up long-lost friends and perhaps reignite college friendships.
But not as an end in itself. I want to rekindle old friendships in the hopes that they will last a long time.
— She writes of “what I want to do in my next decades.” Let’s come back to that. For today, what say you regarding a Retirement Bucket List? As always, I look forward to hearing from you.
joescheets 