My life is so boring most days

AZ Jim

AZ Jim

R.I.P. With Us In Spirit Only
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I actually look forward to the mail and even read the junk mail. Anyone else similarly afflicted?
 

I'm probably the most boring person on here. I married at seventeen, raised my children and a few of other people's children, never had an affair, never worked outside home until my children were grown. Looked after my sick husband until he died. Now I putter around the house and play on the computer.
 

I spend a lot of time on my own...but rarely get bored.
lots of things to tinker with; read; Internet, radio....garden, two cats.....I am now quite selfish, so I am better in my own space!
 
I just can't do a lot of the things I used to do. I do read and write sometimes and I am an animal lover so I feed and water all my wild birds each day.
 
I understand that, Jim; my father is now quite frail; and his frustration is very visible at times as he can't walk very much..
 
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One of my problems is chronic lower back pain. I have had surgery and may have to have it again as I can't walk far or stand too long.
 
This is what stopped me from retiring last year as I had thought I would. When I started filling out the papers for my pensions, and signed up for Medicare I started getting very depressed and sad... and didn't know why... when I made the decision to continue working my depression lifted.. I fear feeling bored and nonproductive most of all..
 
QuickSilver said:
This is what stopped me from retiring last year as I had thought I would. When I started filling out the papers for my pensions, and signed up for Medicare I started getting very depressed and sad... and didn't know why... when I made the decision to continue working my depression lifted.. I fear feeling bored and nonproductive most of all..
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QS, I am so glad I retired. I had many years of good health, camping, fishing and all kinds of fun. Don't go by my boredom, remember two things I live in Arizona's desert. I am locked in with A/C this time of year and I have a problem with long walks and standing more than maybe 15 minutes. I'll be less bored when we get past summer here. Retire, enjoy a few good years.
 
Most days I can only wish for boredom. Kids keep you on the go 24/7 and there are few breaks. But when it all gets to be too much,I think back to last winter when I had no kids for a few months and was bored to death. I will say I am looking forward to school starting in mid-August. A few hours a day to myself everyday sounds like Heaven about now....:)
 
Retirement is Great! But, then, we took a different approach from so many I've seen over the years...and moved to the country. Instead of vegetating in front of the TV all day...like so many I know, I have a constant list of projects to do, and every day the weather permits, I spend at least 3 or 4 hours outdoors, doing some good physical work. That is far and away the best health care plan I could possibly find. I got rid of 30+ pounds of city fat, and I can't remember the last time I had a head cold or the flu. I do have a bit of arthritis in my hips, and the doctor wanted to refer me to a surgeon, but I find that taking a generic Aleve...Naproxen Sodium...before bedtime, if I overdid it...works just fine. My goal is to be chainsawing down a big dead tree, at about age 90, and the danged thing falls backwards on me and ends everything quickly. Nuts to doctors and prescription drugs!!!
 
The heat and humidity is a real drag this time of the year. I played golf this morning, but our group rides so that makes it bearable. I love walking my dog on a pretty trail here in the afternoon, but its simply too hot for that. I can see how people get bored when you have to stay in a lot. I sometimes wonder how well I will handle the boredom when I'm older and unable to do much. For the most part, I love being retired. It's just a couple of months when the weather keeps me inside that I get bored.
 
Shirley said:
I'm probably the most boring person on here. I married at seventeen, raised my children and a few of other people's children, never had an affair, never worked outside home until my children were grown. Looked after my sick husband until he died. Now I putter around the house and play on the computer.
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You and I should engage in a Cyberfair Shirley. How bout that?
 
Nancy, I did. A novel. Then I learned what many others will. Book publishers no longer gamble on 1st time authors. The internet with the self publish business, kindle etc. just about killed chances of anyone who like me, are nobody. If I were famous or infamous I could ghost a book and sell it, but the average guy now has no chance. My story languishes, unpublished, in the Library of Congress.
 
It doesn't have to be published to be a fun thing to do. It's something to be proud of. It's something you did. Most people never do anything like that.

Can you sing? :)
 

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