Can you be even more retired?

April 13, 2025

2:42 am

Once again, a restless night and I am still awake.

I just posted about 20 minutes ago and was going over my stats for the week.

I took a look at the current daily writing prompts and decided to respond to this one.

I say even more retired because in 6 years I start drawing my military pension on top of my disability payments. The whole goal of retirement was to be financially secure as I age. The plan I made did not actually go in the direction I thought it would but I am grateful for what I have. I do not want to end up like my mother and her husband, still trying to work in their 70’s and relying on just social security.

I also did not want to end up with the same major health issues my cousins have so I started making lifestyle changes in my mid thirties. I will be writing and posting an update to a recent health crisis that I had shared back in February.

I hope that I will be with the person I met online and have been talking to on and off the last 8 years. The last 3 years have been consistent despite the distance, time difference, and the lives we lead. He still says he wants to marry me and I want that too but time will tell. At the moment I am working on my own future plans and so is he.

The biggest part of my plan is to not be in the current US state I live in and moving to the Pacific Northwest to be nearer to my other kids and other relatives. I have lived here for 51 of my soon to be 54 years. I think that is long enough, time to move on and discover something new.

I want to live someplace where it is constantly green with rolling hills and mountains. A place within a few hours drive to not only the Pacific Ocean but to waterfalls and deserts. A place where I can visit large metropolitan cities and have new experiences. That is my ideal retirement.

In 10 years I want to finally be settled down somewhere. I have been roaming from place to place and moving to different houses my whole life. I want to finally have a place I can call home, my home.

A place that I can come back to after I have traveled to the places I have always wanted to see. A place where meals will be shared with laughter, togetherness, and memories made.

I see myself more at peace in 10 years.

Peace with the life I have lived, the people I have met, and the good, bad, and ugly of it all.

Is that not what we all really want in the end?

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Have a wonderful week!

Peace, love, happiness, and good vibes, always!

Suzanne