Okay, here we go. It’s time to let our hair down a bit. I talk a lot on this website about important matters: identity, purpose, meaning, social connections and more. Vital stuff, of course. But every now and again, I feel the urge to lighten things up a little. After all, we need to strike that balance in life. Yes, let’s work on our well-being in retirement, but let’s have some fun along the way.
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We often think of retirement as a time of slowing down, but for some in life, it can become the complete opposite – a time, perhaps, where societal rules no longer apply. Across the world, people in their 60s, 70s, 80s and older are proving age is no barrier to doing something – well, a little unexpected, shall we say. Not for them sitting back and watching daytime television, or decluttering the cupboard under the stairs. They want a little bit more out of life. From DJing in nightclubs through to transforming a garden into a mini wild-west town, these individuals are bucking the rules that we can sometimes fall into the trap of setting for ourselves.
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