首先聲明,我的退休是被迫的。我喜歡我以前的工作,那份工作最大的優點就是自由,上班跟度假似的。記得最後一天交回公司配車時,眼淚差點掉了下來,二十幾年工齡就這樣畫上了休止符。
我喜歡玩,從孩子二歲起一直保持每年的四個學生假期,三次澳洲國內,一次海外的旅行記錄,直至2019年.
2021年,小兒子高中畢業。空巢了,我們二口子更是進一步,開始四驅澳洲。2024年了,回顧一下,五年的退休成績如下:
1;幫助小兒子徹底戒掉癡迷網絡遊戲的壞習慣
2;孩子們的成績從中等變成學霸
3;一家人一起環繞整個澳洲
4;二口子再次四驅環繞整個澳洲
5;從空中看完整個澳洲
在我看來,退休就是重生,一種全新的生活投資和體驗。用通俗的語言解釋,我迷上了澳洲;再退一步說,沒看過澳洲,退休就不完美了!
It is the place I always want to visit and to pay my tribute to the victims.
I'm the kind of person who doesn't want to indulge in having fun. I never go to amusement parks or beaches and don't want to spend time on leisure. My children only get to travel if there's an art workshop, a sleep away summer music camp, or invited by a relative in another city for holidays. My life is very stoic. Having been trained in the military for years if not decades, entertainment and travel for leisure make me feel decadent. I probably hurrahed too much in boot camp in my early 30s in the U.S Army. The impressions were deep. It's about enduring pain and forgo any kind of self indulgent yearning. "It's a hard knock life", like what they sing in the musical Anne. I can relate more with hard labor and death camps than ocean cruises. I was pushed to the edges not just once. There's kind of feeling of being a survivor of life but not a beneficiary.