Seems to be all doom and gloom.
I have recently become a member of YourLifeChoices and, at first, I found some of the articles interesting. After a few weeks of reading the member comments, however, I am becoming depressed! Why is nearly everyone so grumpy and whingey? Ok, not everyone, but there seems to be a common thread of pessimism which really puts me off. Are we really going to fit the stereotypical grumpy old man/woman in our retirement or can we snap out of it, please? Talk about people taking offence at the slightest little comment.... some of you guys have it down pat. Come on, people...if you could only take a step back and look at how some of you wind each other up you would have a giggle too. I am not going to retire now and become like that. I will just keep working where I am among people of all ages and, consequently, my views on life remain balanced.
Welcome Holly, we need more people like you on this site to balance out the negativity, I was born in the North East of England at the end of WW2 life was tough, we got on with it, life in 2019 is fantastic, maybe I am living in the right country although my family in the UK are all doing a lot better than our parents did, I retired 9 years ago, I didn’t come from a privileged background, I worked most of my life in the steelworks, got a reasonable wage and am having a great retirement, I did some volunteer work for about 5 years after retirement and saw some that were not doing great, but one example was my neighbour who contracted motor nuerone disease at the age of 32, I have to say that she was the most positive person I have ever come across, no matter how bad she was feeling she never failed to inspire me on a daily basis, she wanted to continue to work even though she was in an electric wheelchair, so I used to take her to the station each day and pick her up at night, she was a child psychologist, so that’s probably why she understood me lol, sometime we just don’t know how lucky most of us are, that’s not to dismiss those that are suffering.