A welcome exercise

I saw Sylvie at the public market this morning and we sat together over coffee. She is 63 and retired a little longer than I and so we compared notes on how each of us is doing. There is much dust still to settle for both of us and we agreed that work takes up so much of our lives that we leave much unattended which waits for that invariable slowdown. For career can become both distraction and impediment to self improvement.

If we are reflective persons there is no doubt that any pending unresolved personal issues will form part of our work to be sorted out. We both are happily out of the rat race so we can look after ourselves. Being both divorced and living alone means there is no place to hide.

For me, a much needed and welcome exercise which no amount of hobbies should distract from. 

To quote Descartes, "I think therefore I am".