"Will you still feed me...when I'm 64?"
Well, you left out the other half of that Beatles lyric out, so let me just say that the poetry scene will always need Mignon. Check out her blog and buy the brand new Extra MoJo anthology, released this year and published through her own imprint, Hidden Charm Press.
Will I be feeding you? Well, if you retire before I do, my money will go towards your social security, I am sure. So there's that, at least. Funny. All I can think of now is how I'm going to be working to feed someone, even if it's just myself, well past the age of 64. Maybe science will find ways to keep us alive longer without actually improving quality of life, giving us the ability to drone through our commutes and workdays for another thirty years.
"When I'm Ninety-Four doesn't have the same ring, does it?
Barring any miracles of science, I just hope my mind stays strong enough and that I can learn enough so I'm of some use to someone in my old age. In my thirties, my job skills were next to none outside of the service industry. I was one or two bad decisions away from being unskilled labor at age forty. Thanks to some amazing breaks, I'm a vital member of an organization (for now, hence recent thoughts of returning to school for something.).
I have no illusions about retiring early, if at all. Even my mom, who with my late father planned incredibly well for the future and is comfortable today, still has to work as a landlord in her retirement on the apartments she hoped to sell. And I'm not that good a planner. But I can work hard. It was always the one good thing I had going for me, but in hindsight, I should have tried investing more when I was younger with the intent of not having to shuffle anything more than a notebook in my seventies.
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Okay, that was depressing. Still, beats being snarky and writing a one sentence answer like, "Sorry, I have a girlfriend." Still, perhaps a limerick to make us feel better?
I was once a well-oiled machine,
but forty, I'm losing my sheen.
Will the future be bright
or will my new plight
getting chosen to be soylent green?
That didn't work, did it?
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