Retired with a hobby

When I retired I knew I would have to have a hobby or two and it was important to keep busy, both physically and mentally. Little did I realize how your hobby, which was a part time thing when you were working, would be or could be a full time pastime when you retired. Although it is not stressful or creating any pressure it is very fulfilling and can fill your time up so you don't want to do hardly anything else or don't have the time to do anything else. Being retired is a completely way of life than I had thought it would be. A lot different than I thought.

I imagined that I would be a little busy doing things but didn't realize how comfortable it would get to do things as I wanted when I wanted. Within reason I just did things as I felt like it. Of course I had a great life partner and she was fun to be with and do things with. Being as we were both retired we tended to do almost everything at the spur of the moment or at least with out much planning. It is really nice because don't worry about planning things and worrying about a time schedule. Sure we planned a few trips or things to do but if we didn't feel like it when it came time we just did something else, or did almost nothing. We read, we listened to music, we went for a ride in to the country, maybe went to get a coffee or an ice cream, went shopping or maybe we just talked. It is so relaxing and so fulfilling. A lot of the time things can just wait.

Some of the day was spent doing our own things, by ourselves. We might work in the garden, or surf the net or work on a scrapbook or album. It was times like these that time would seem to get away from me. I would get so wrapped up in doing something and with nothing scheduled to do or that had to be done the time would just fly and next thing I would know it was late. Of course when I was finishing up on my school work and getting ready for finals I got real busy.

It seems to be so funny to be retired and talking about having to do finals. I did have them though and it was fun getting ready for them by taking pictures and writing story lines and studying up on terms and procedures. Photography is a great hobby/advocation in that it is so individual and what is good for one may not good for another. What you may think of for a subject for a project may not be on someone elses radar. I traveled around the Bay Area working on my final assignment and although I had a main idea and bet I changed my direction at least a dozen times before I completed it. I got an A+ on my Final and got an "A", 95% for the entire class. The great thing about it was that I learned a lot about photography, thank you Mrs.Craven, and had fun doing it, thanks again.

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