When something dramatic happens in your life, it leaves a shock of awareness. Things like getting your first job or quitting your first job, first love, birth of your first child, death of a parent or loved one, divorce or buying your first home.
Anything that you can instantly recall, along with the associated emotion, is a shock.
The purpose and use of shocks is to alert you to the moment and its deep meaning.
Retirement, whether planned for or not, is a shock. It’s a marker, a milestone, a separation from one part of life to another. Remember the positive expectancy when you got your first job and the emotion surrounding this event? You can apply the same positive expectancy to your next chapter.
Even though it has a different purpose, you can use your accumulated wisdom and experience to pilot a rich meaningful life going forward.
Anything else is a waste of all those shocks.
