Busy Living for Later?

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One spends half a life saying ‘after’. After work, after paying the mortgage, after raising the children, after retiring. The problem is that the ‘after’ never arrives as one imagined it. It arrives with rustling knees and a slight existential anxiety. I recently saw a animated short film of just seven minutes entitled ‘Retirement Plan’, in which the protagonist, Ray, has just retired, to realize that that means, finally, ‘having time.’ A time t…