I'm not giving in to anyone else's idea of how I ought to feel and look at 70. 'Retirement' is not a word I can even visualize. I retire when I go to bed!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.
Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.
It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and men who have worked jobs that require manual labor all of their lives may not physically be able to do work until they are 70 years old.
I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.
This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.
I really feel better about aging at the age of 86 than I did at 70.
I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
The day I retire is the day I'll feel old. I'm not there yet.
I see all these old people who don't have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never say 'retired' because that's such a finality that I don't want to be part of my life. I'll work until they throw me in a box.