What’s the biggest lie we tell ourselves about retirement?
MARC AGRONIN: Many people fear retirement because they imagine it to be the beginning of old age. If a few wrinkles and gray hairs didn’t already herald this concern, retirement rings it in with all of its glory. Too often the “old age” they envision is a downward slide into a void that they will struggle to fill. True – we must acknowledge that medical issues and memory changes do become more commonplace in the postretirement years. But if we define late life simply on that narrow basis, we miss the reality of aging that most people find surprisingly full of life.