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Enjoying Retirement?! in the forum
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December 22, 2011 11:50 AM PST
Wow it was great to read all your post from the Title "Enjoying Retirement" from you all! Many different views on life from Us Biker People! We all are still just human so I would like to say I too just retired, on my 62 BD this year and boy it's not like any thing I planned for my self or at least had hoped! I don't own a home except my (#2) Harley, & that isn't even what I really want to ride or own (still have a dream to own something bigger & cooler), it just happens to be what I could Afford.
But I am not complaining when I never dreamt that I would ever even ride a Harley on my own let alone OWN ONE! I too would like to count my blessings even though I too have been down a rough road. Like not having a father since I was 18, and my mother being ill for way too many years. So I had to help raise all my little sisters & brother since I was the oldest & my mother did not drive.
Along the way I will admit also tha I have made way too many mistakes but I think I learned from them by now! Like being married 3 times & one being a very abusive husband which I had to flee to Alaska to get away. But the lesson there was I got to see the most beautiful state to live in.... And I had a great job, owned my own home but lost it all when my youngest sons were stolen by their father. Took me a while to find them, went back to college to get a AA degree, moved to the big city in Portland, Oregon but along the way lost my two sons in death. One was 21 & killed in a Car Crash & 40 days later my youngest son at 19 committed Suicide. Boy did I have to have a lot of therapy along those paths.
I worked for Xerox for 15 years while learning to take care of just me. I still have my oldest son who has given me 6 grandkids which they give me lots of love besides riding my Harley to make me feel like life is worth living. I had to retire to take care of disabled family members so I think I have come full circle so to speak!
And I may have retired from Xerox & also got my well deserved SS but it's not much so I work part time while living with 4 family members. But I get away it's to ride ride ride to keep my sanity & now that is my therapy!
So even though christmas time makes me cry from still missing my two youngest sons who have been gone now since 1998, I do count my blessings! Here I am alive & have my health ( take no pills not for even my old age aches & pains ), I have many a sisterhood lady friends for I belong to a all woman's riding group for 7 years now & been riding for 8 and plan on riding till the day I go to Heaven. In fact if I could ride thru those pearly gates I SURELY WOULD! So thanks, this feels good to share & count my blessings.
MAY ALL OF YOU HAVE A GOOD HOLIDAY & GOD BLESS YOU ALL! Thanks. hdbabe
