🔬 Science 7h ago · Jeanette Brown

If you retire at 65 and live to 90, you may have around 1,300 ordinary Tuesdays ahead of you — yet most retirement plans focus on money and holidays rather than how those days will actually feel

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A few months into my own retirement, I began to understand something I had not expected.
I had spent years thinking about retirement as freedom. Freedom from deadlines, meetings, early alarms and the constant sense that somebody needed something from me. I imagined how wonderful it would be to wake up and have an entire day that belonged to me.
And it was wonderful — for a while.
Then one morning, I found myself sitting with a cup of coffee wondering what I was going to do with the day. There wa

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