5 minutes

retirement culture

Dr..

Yousef al-Sharif

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August 17, 2022

We often ask ourselves a question that many may be confused about the answer to;

Young or old, what will life be like after retirement?

Will there really come a day when I quit my job?

Or my career journey ends and I become a retiree?!

Or am I the type who wants to work until the last breath?!

In fact, unfortunately, we in our societies lack a culture of retirement. The vast majority either fail to plan for it, or did not take it into account or calculate it in the first place. We always sing about this Western model, which depicts retirement as the beginning of life;

The life of comfort, or that stereotype that tells us that we will have enough time to wrap the world, and in my opinion, these two images contain a lot of fallacy, it is true that there are those who want to reach this stage, and enjoy its comfort and peace of mind - if you will - and there are He does not want it, he is ready and enjoying it, and you find it in the happiest moments of his life when he works and reaps the fruits of his labor.

And let us return to our friends who failed to plan for this stage, for these I find to be the least fortunate in this life;

They were plotting for this stage that they would live it comfortably, they had planned it well, but the verse turned against them, so what was their plan but failure, and what failure are we talking about?!

About an irreparable failure, as “the time has passed” according to the saying of the woman Umm Kulthum, and the opportunities are no longer as available as they were, and that is why we find many people breaking themselves here and there until the days pass and their lives end, or you find people who have lived a fairly easy life throughout their lives, And when they reached this stage, their money went and their lives were shortened, regretting what was lost from them, and I am here not stubbornly stubborn, but what happens with most people is one scenario that is almost a mirror image, and for this I wanted to talk to you through this article and ask you what the appropriate plan for this stage is. the retirement.

In order to develop the appropriate plan, we have to think about the mentality of retirees;

A mentality that is not similar to ours today. There is a dream prevalent among many that they will spend it on their farm between nature and animals and live a simple life, and there are those who save money to help them in these days, but before we adopt the plan, did we really ask ourselves how we want it to be?

Do we want it to continue our journey?!

Or the beginning of our lives?!

Or live it as it came without any planning?!

I may find that all the answers are appropriate, what we want at that time of life may be difficult for us to discover, and for this I find that we urgently need to study this culture, and learn more about the types of successful trade at this stage of life, and there is no objection to consulting investment specialists, in order to We put with them a plan that makes us able to manage this stage and know its requirements.

Retirement culture does not have to be only a culture of how to manage this stage financially, but also morally, psychologically, socially and familially. We are part of all of this. A person may find that he has forgotten hobbies, creativity is extinguished, and there is an opportunity for this stage to be a beautiful thing that we enjoy like the rest of our lives. What I wanted to say in this article is divided into two parts;

The first is for all those who have not reached the retirement age, and these I advise them to review their accounts in order to prepare as required, and the second for those retirees who handed over the flag and began to drain their lives, I have an important point for these people to understand, that the retirement age may be for many years, and it is part of our lives on us. Exploit it and live it properly, as long as you are.

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