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Retirement is not a jail term

I was talking to a man who retired almost 20 years ago. I asked him whether he ever missed his job. He said he enjoyed his retirement because he had looked forward to it from the day he got his first job.

This was quite in contrast to most people who seem to fear retirement. The reason this elderly man looked forward to retirement is because he realised he would one day retire, and began preparing for it.

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