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Post retirement awakening
I was biking one summer and ran into an ex-colleague, and despite the passing years, we recognized each other. He had been the head of his region in our large corporation and had devoted his career to the place. He was one of the lucky ones who looked as good as he had ten years before, and he was more relaxed and looked happier.
We exchanged pleasantries and, all of a sudden his voice changed. He looked at me and said: “You know, I bought the whole program. I really believed in it all.” And he shook his head in disbelief, his eyes looking startled.
Since he retired, he had been freed from the narrow corporate focus, and was now a more rounded person. And he basically said that if he were to relive his working days with his new outlook, he would have done things differently.
But he was one of the lucky ones: he had kept enough perspective that he had retained a meaningful family life through it all, and so was able to enjoy his retirement years.
Still, he regretted how he at times drove his staff for goals that he now saw as meaningless.
That pleasant encounter reminded me of the atmosphere that exists when a group of people are working hard towards chosen goals (their employers’ or their own). It can really warp our perspective if we don’t stand back once in a while and look at it from a wider point of view.
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