Retirement Age and Slip Slidin' Away

You know, it doesn't really feel different, and yet somehow I do not always feel the wonder of being out in nature. It's possible that I have found enough of it in my everyday life that I'm just taking it for granted, but I sure do not want to think I'm losing the "wonder" of life. What I want right this minute, is that feeling of I can't wait to get wet, put my board in the water and ride some waves with my friends. I'm out on the lake most mornings before work, on the paddleboard, communing with nature and it seems to really make me feel at peace. I'm starting to think that what has happened is that my race towards a life of retirement has morphed into a life of enjoying the life I have right now. I'm starting to see that the future is not some glorious place of promise where all problems have been solved, but a place where it is too late to do anything about it.