“Congratulations on your retirement.” Now I’ve reached the time when I’m actually receiving these best wishes, they strike me as very odd. After all, I haven’t won anything.
“Congratulations on your retirement.” Now I’ve reached the time when I’m actually receiving these best wishes, they strike me as very odd. After all, I haven’t won anything.
Well done for just getting old, surviving to get the pension? Still, the sentiments are definitely better than those hopes "for a long and healthy retirement". Thanks for alerting me to the alternatives.
Surviving to reach the home straight does make you think about the meaning of it all. In his famous essay, The Station, Robert J Hastings compares life to a train journey. He advises us not to focus on the illusion of reaching a particular station in life (graduation, promotion, retirement) when everything will fall fulfillingly into place.
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