Top Ten Reasons I Want to Retire Tomorrow
- I want to read my old philosophy books from college again. This time, for myself.
- Writing my novel would be so much easier without this whole “job” thing.
- So I can start submitting stories to magazines, not blog posts to blog carnivals.
- Read more.
- Take pictures again.
- Practice my French before it fades completely from my mind.
- Become a (much) better cook.
- Read more, again.
- Never ride the bus during rush hour ever again.
- I have nothing left to prove
Usually I would write something like this and end it with a “takeaway,” or something that says to the world “listen, I know this sounds silly because I could do all these things now if my time-management skills were further developed, so that’s the lesson I learned from writing it out.”
But instead, today, I’m just going to say screw that. That is all.
December 25th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
I like that you don’t have a takeaway, leaving it up to the us to decide what we identify with (all of it!)
I think your number 10 is the most telling. All that other stuff is what you want to DO, number 10 really tells about who you ARE. And being retired, I would say that’s the most important one to being happy spending full-time time doing 1-9.