Retirement

 If you are retired but still worry a lot about a lot of stuff, people, places and situations, then all that has changed in retirement is that you now don't get paid to worry.  A retired person may get a bit disoriented at first.  "What is my place in the world?" they may ask themselves.  The fact that you lived to be retired means that now you have the time to find your place in your new world.  Maybe gratitude that you did not get fired for insane living, would be a good start to each puzzling day.  Acceptance that you are older and not younger, alive and not dead.  God still has plans.  Not your plans maybe but God's plans.  So some daily meditation and spiritual reading to get out of your own way would be good.  The ego never retires.  Nor does imperfection, but we can minimize these things with patience and practice.  If you are striving for success in retirement, that is not retirement.  Goals are fine, but too often they lead to wasted time in fantasy.  Maybe be a model of peace for all those who still run around in frantic pursuit of whatever they deem important.  Plant something.  It shows you believe in a future even if you are not here to enjoy the fruits.  That is service to others.