What concerns you the most?

Saw this weeks ago but felt I needed time for a worthy answer to emerge.

Since retirement in 2017 when every day I wake up is another Saturday, of most concern in my life's day to day, week to week, month to month, year after year direction, is enjoyment, natural science amusements, and fun as is possible within the framework of our modern world where I live and my own limitations as a modest economic peon. So before the rest of you in humanity cause chaos, death, and doom, I selfishly hope things continue to plod along without getting too weird while I'm still here at age 75. Though won't be paying much attention. Its painful reading much of it.

The Earth could be such an awesome paradise with many fewer of us living sustainingly in harmony for thousands of generations. Especially now with modern science, knowledge, and bioscience. Long ago after realizing I was too unimportant to affect our human world, like a wood twig floating down the Mississippi River in flood, began looking for making the most of my modest world.

And I figured out how to enjoy a most excellent time that is utterly awesome at times. And in this era, because of the Internet and the fact people in public everywhere now tend to carry smartphones, I can via short conversation point most anyone now to 2 very impressive art and outdoor sport websites that 2 decades ago totally manually hand coded in html. On one strangers can immediately see downsized for web versions of my still photography while on the other at youtube, why I have been a multi decade elite fun skier.

On Linkedin can point people to my impressive 4 plus decades in hardware electronic engineering support, mostly debug and test. And on this seniorforums dot com website, I might also point strangers to my user name. Then they could read what I write herein anonymously over months to years, cooperating with others here, much like I did as a catalyst in corporate engineering groups, being creatively useful. At least I hope that shows in a way others in the public can recognize, despite some of my rather unique ideas, what kind of a logical thinking communicative person I am.
 
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Although healthy now I worry about getting dementia or having a stroke and needing care. Money is a secondary concern as when married we would have inherited each other’s pensions when one of us died which would have meant a comfortable retirement. That’s no longer the case.
 
Hi all, and sorry for the long absents;
I feel for you old medic.
Like you I was in excellent condition for a 60 year old back in 2017then I had a work vehicle accident and broke the base of my back
didn't come home from work for 4 months ( in hospital).
I at least can still walk but I cant hold down any job ever again.
I may have mentioned before that regardless of my current condition I have to care for my wife also who has
skitso bipolar disorder. (excuse the spelling).

It has been documented that only 10% of marriages manage to survive this type of mental illness.
She was diagnosed 5 years after we were married and we have now celebrated 38 years of wedded bliss.

I still do what I can in weight lifting exercise, but my back continually gives me grief every day, in the hope of not becoming a burden on society
in later years.
But in all I consider myself very lucky.
 
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Lots of heart felt concerns in this thread. I don't have any concerns at this point. I was told a few months ago that I have a medical condition that is always progressive and fatal. Still doing test, so the time line is iffy, but it looks like 2 to 3 years for it to run its course. Surprisingly, I find this liberating.
 
Lethe200 said:
Downsizing soon enough to (a) get the double capital gains deduction selling our home as a couple rather than waiting until one of us dies, and (b) the "widow's tax". Whoever survives the first death gets socked hard on income taxes. Ugh!
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Surviving spouses have two years after a spouse's death to use the full capital gains deduction that both were entitled to before the spouse's passing.
Paying Taxes on a Home Sold After a Spouse's Death
 
Buckeye said:
Lots of heart felt concerns in this thread. I don't have any concerns at this point. I was told a few months ago that I have a medical condition that is always progressive and fatal. Still doing test, so the time line is iffy, but it looks like 2 to 3 years for it to run its course. Surprisingly, I find this liberating.
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Oh how terrible for you. I will keep you in my prayers. Something similar happened to my husband.
 
Youngster said:
Pick one thing having to do with your retirement. (I know that might be difficult) You can elaborate if you like.
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My wife and I have no children, it's a painful subject and I don't want to elaborate on it. We have each other, just as we have done in all the 55 years of marriage and four years of friendship/courtship. One of us will have to say the final farewell to the other in the not to distant future. My prayer is that we can emulate my grandparents.

They had but one child, after which, because of birth complications, grandmother could have no more. Their child, my mother died young, my grandparents outlived their daughter by decades. Both lived until their mid 90's and died within a few months of each other. As I said in the first paragraph, my prayer is that we can emulate my grandparents.
 
Ruthanne said:
After that I may take a self arranged dirt nap.
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Not if I have anything to say about it.......I look at Gidget and Louie and ask them why they are not Buffy and Max. Maybe I'll never love them the same, but after a few years I probably will. In the meantime, when Buffy broke my heart so badly by dying I thought I'd never be happy again. I mourned her and with the encouragement of people here, particularly @Georgiagranny, I got these two maniacs. They make me laugh they are such crazies.

We will help you Ruthanne.
 

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