I’d gotten so used to talking through career plans and options with younger friends that it caught me off-guard when one of them asked me recently. “So what’s next for you?”
It’s easy to fall into a trap when you are in your late 70s and retired. The trap is assuming that whatever you did for a career ended when you collected your last paycheck.
And that you have essentially checked out for good.
The friend who asked me that question is half my age and in the middle of her career, which we’d been discussing over dinner.
But now she had turned the tables.
“I don’t know,” I stumbled. “I guess I’d still like to do something that matters — to write something that matters. Maybe a book.”
After dinner I thought about our exchange. What am I going to do with this time that is in a sense borrowed time? It’s a question that will take some of that time to answer.
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