Before, exactly last year, I firmly believed that I would never retire, but if I live, I will work all my life. Retirement is not my choice, and I am not interested in retirement.
I have this view and understanding because I personally feel that a person's value can only be maximized if he works. Another point is that I have seen some life after retirement, such as dancing, playing cards, shopping and fishing. These may be leisurely, but they are not what I want. Or, not the retirement life I imagined at that time.
Mao Mu described his ideal life after retirement in The Trembling of a Leaf: "I will have the ever-changing sea and sky, fresh dawn, brilliant sunset and magnificent night. I will open a garden on the land that was a wilderness not long ago. I will create something. Time passed before you knew it. When I am old and look back on my life, I hope I live a happy, simple and quiet life. I will also spend my life in Beauty in this humble way. "
Although he didn't make it clear how he would live after retirement, there is no doubt that he painted an idyllic picture of "leisurely seeing Nanshan", a picture of chickens and dogs hearing each other and full of vitality.
Although Mao Mu's description touched my imagination, it did not shake my point of view. What really changed my understanding of this matter was my colleagues around me.
In recent years, many colleagues have retired one after another, leaving the unit one by one and entering another state of life. I want to use one word to describe this state of life, which is "I like it". After retirement, they completely do what they like.
Some people are busy traveling all over the country, especially in the past few years, running all over the country, taking pictures of various scenic spots, spending their holidays in Sanya in winter and living in the surrounding mountains in summer, which is very exciting.
Others are busy with exercise and fitness, taking photos of Tik Tok's classmates, helping to take care of their grandchildren and nephews, doing housework seriously, and entertaining themselves with pots and pans.
Others go back to their hometown, rebuild their old homes, build chicken houses and duck houses, catch fish in old ponds, raise flowers in small yards, pick fruits and vegetables in fields, and live a leisurely life.
No one feels uncomfortable, and no one feels out of life because they are not at work. It is this state that has entered a more real life.
I think this state may be the real "second scene of life" to experience the beauty of life.
Each of us must have it and feel it.
So for me, what will life be like after retirement, or what will my ideal retirement life be like?
The answer is simple: driving around the country, painting all the way, eating all the way, listening to stories all the way, taking cats and dogs back to the small yard to sort out these interesting things.