My brother is retiring

My brother and I think alike about many things, and differently about many other things. We also sometimes disagree about what it is that we disagree about, which is kind of funny all by itself.

Although we agree about many things, we sometimes actually come at things from quite different perspectives.

Source: Retiring to… Something – Steven D. BREWER

My brother and me.

In my brother’s thinking, I “never really wanted to work and pursued a career with the goal of retiring early,” which is both true and false. I hated having a job of the sort where I needed to show up every day, and do stuff that I didn’t find interesting. But I never objected to working. I just wanted the word used correctly. I was delighted to “work” in the sense of producing great works of literature (or art, or philanthropy).

It was never working I objected to. I simply didn’t like “working for the man.”

In retirement I don’t have to do that, and am able to devote myself to work (such as my fiction writing), to the necessary tasks of daily living (such as walking my dog), and to doing things I enjoy for their own sake (such as exercise, and reading).

And although the specifics may be quite different, in this area I think my brother and I are very much in agreement.

I have no shortage of interesting projects I intend to work on in retirement.

Source: Retiring to… Something – Steven D. BREWER