Who wants to retire?

The divorce rates amongst retired football players are quite high. And one of the explanations behind this is really interesting. You see, these football are almost always touring, they spend almost no time with their wives. Once they retire they suddenly find themselves spending all of their days with them, and that inevitably leads to some tensions.

Which brings me to my main point, which is that for most people, retirement isn’t as great as they always dreamed it would be.

“If only I had no obligations, I would spend all my time doing things I love”, is what everyone thinks. What they don’t realize is that after doing those things they love enough times, they slowly start to become things they hate!

Take Goa for instance. You might enjoy vacationing there for 3–4 days. Sitting on that beach you would think — “I could just stay here forever!”. But really think about it. What would happen if you moved to Goa permanently? Maybe it’s just the pessimist in me talking, but I am sure that within a month you would start to hate that place.

Back in college, I used to pick up a lot of freelance work in one semester. Then I would get fed up and decide that I won’t be working at all the next semester. And sure enough, by the end of that semester, I would be getting fed up of not doing anything, and planning the projects I’ll pick up next.

I guess what I am getting at is this. You will always be thinking that your current life sucks and that something else in the future would be better. But that’s clearly not the case. So maybe we should just be aware of that and enjoy the present that we have.