There’s an expression that you die twice, the first time when you retire and the second time when your biological functions cease.
I think that you actually die 3 times. The first time when you retire and the last time when you’re in the coffin.
However, there is a third time, the time between retirement and biological death. That death can be avoided. Retirement doesn’t mean the end of usefulness unless you let it. There are always things to learn, things to do, things to become interested in. I hear so many people say, oh, I’m too old to do this or that and some of that may be true, but not all the time. After retirement, you just move to a new time in your life. You get another job, you learn new skills, or you visit new places. I figured out pretty fast after visiting a few places, that I’m not the visit new places type. I DO work, on temporary assignments that I can take…or not. And I’m not wealthy, before you ask. The best thing I’ve done since retirement is starting my YouTube channel. At first, I was just curious about how the whole thing worked. What it has morphed into is pushing me into learning new things as I go along on my YouTube journey and posting those videos so others can learn them too if they want. In addition, learning those things has helped me to think about how I can use those things.
But whatever you try to do or learn, don’t let yourself die 3 times. You are never too old to learn or do something new.