The New Direction...


Today, you might say, it begins for real...  The total realization of my decision to retire...  My former colleagues returned to workshops and even classes...  The Target ads, the Old Navy...  Walmart...  Payless Shoes...They've all been telling me to get my new stuff for classes...

And I did!  I purchased several pretty outfits for future fun excursions and visits with family and friends.  Tomorrow evening I am planning to attend a little soirée on a friend's deck...

 I talked to a dear friend who retired a few years ago today...   Apparently this little nostalgia pervades a bit in the fall and vanishes by September!

I do dream about school right now...  Odd classes in  out of the way places, inhabited by former coworkers and student...  No, this is NOT a depressing or depressed post...  I'm not
really sad...  Just rather aghast and amazed to realize I'm of an age to retire instead of the little girl running into a two story farm house and getting ready to take my grandfather by the hand and go into Woolworth's to buy my big 100-crayon box with sharpener....

Surely my son is heading off to school with me, photos snapped of us .....smiling by our car to mark another first day...


I am on the "Through Bus" across the span of years called a life...  But my bus is no longer bright, primary yellow... my life is heading a new direction...






Email Post

Comments

NanaDiana said…
Gayla- Isn't it an odd feeling? I, too, cannot believe that I am at the age of retirement. How fast life has moved me along the track. There were times when I felt like I got derailed and had to work to get back on track again. I guess we will never be young again but I love having a young spirit. I think life in retirement is what we make of it- an exciting adventure or nothing at all. God bless you- I think this will be a little hard for you in the beginning...until that miserable, dreary day when you realize that you don't have to leave the house in the early morning hours to face coughers and sneezers! lol xo Diana
August 15, 2013 at 10:57 PM
Phyllis @Around the House said…
Gosh it was so different for me, i have worked since I was 16 years old and all I ever wanted to do was go home...Even with a lucrative managerial position,...I just really wanted to go home...When everyone else was staying till 6 or 7 or 8 at night I was out of there by 5pm cause I just wanted to go home...I feel so greatful to my husband that now I can just be home, retireing is a wonderful thing and I feel so free to do what I want without any restrictions,,,,yay...take care...Phyllis
August 16, 2013 at 1:02 AM
Post a Comment

Popular Posts