contemplating retirement

It's interesting what happens when you retire.

Not that I've tried it, of course. Not yet! But it's often the case that when people retire, they actually don't last long.

Well, maybe not often. But sufficiently often to make you think there's something going on. Like it's dangerous to stop working.

Not that I'm being morbid, or anything. It just crossed my mind again today that ever since I started on this little week-long holiday I've not felt well at all! As if the bugs can only catch you up when you yourself slow down.

It's hardly scientific. But that's what it feels like. And today was the worst!

I didn't really venture out at all and spent the day immersed in making DVDs. Well, one in fact. And even that was far from being completed in a day!

But it took my mind off feeling none too great and there is a certain therapy in .. well, work, of a sort, I guess. Although I see it as a 'hobby' and I love the different challenges involved.

It crossed my mind that we were made to work. And when the work's not there we're bound to start to suffer.

The DVD today revolved around the words of one of the psalms. It's a great way to study the psalm, I'm bound to say. To set the words of the psalm against a series of pieces of music and weave through all of that a seamless flow of images - it certainly helps ingrain the psalmist's words into my soul.

And there's a certain healing therapy in that. I felt the better for applying myself like that.

And even less inclined to seek an early retirement!