I find that my interest in posting is directly affected by the other things going on in my life. When I initially retired in 2015, I was on the forum daily, but going back to work soon thereafter led me to a greatly reduced number of visits to the forum, mainly because I was always pursuing something else with the new job or my child. Since getting home from my recent 4-year Sojourn in London, I've renewed the number of visits and posts, but have once once again started yet another post-retirement job and thus might be on the forum once a week, lurking amongst the pages and posts for interesting reads.
Sadly, I haven't gotten around to re-displaying all of my goods since I don't have the room in my new home, whereas when I lived in Alabama and had everything on display in my home museum, I saw it every day and it stayed in the forefront of my mind. Today, with most of my collection packed away, the combination of work, school activities for my kid and general duties in life like mowing the yard and making dinner have slowed down my participation quite a bit. It doesn't mean I'm not still interested or as attached to my collection, but life just has a way of shifting focus and priorities. Additionally, for those of us who reached our 60s and beyond (Redbob LOL), we do indeed start thinking about what happens to our collections as opposed to continuing to build them up. Thoughts of mortality now creep into our heads, despite potentially having several decades left on this planet. As my wife likes to reminds me, just how much more stuff do I need to collect in my third trimester of life, which is why responses like that of
@Cato3rd above are encouraging, knowing there are still younger collectors out there whom we can pass our items onto as we age out.
Maybe when I retire for the third (?) time next year and decide work isn't as important in life is I've made it out to be, I'll get back to daily postings or at least more active participation.
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