By: Nana

Nana — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 01:50:40 +0000

Would like to see more groups like this available online for the retired community to feel more connected with the world outside their front doors. Because as a working person, I found out that because I didn’t get up at a regular sch time each day any more and go to work and return home at the same time each evening. I was not included in the “get together” activities that once almost consumed all the free time I had. Now, I find I am alone and I have no interest in the house or how it looks, those days are gone. I want to live and see, freedom enjoy myself without any restrictions except the ones I place on myself. I have worked long and hard all my life since age 13. Now I out of a job because of my health. I find that I always lost another part of me, my second family that I had been spending more time with then my family at home. Between the co workers birthday parties, baby showers, and girls fun nights, and all the other little excuses to just get away. Now I find I am really away because they don’t include me no longer. My own grown children and busy with their lives and really are not used to having me at home. They are busy with their own children and all the needs of the home and family keeps them running at full speed. This is not what I thought I would be doing at this time in my life. How do you learn to be yourself after being everything to everybody?

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By: Nana