ON RETIREMENT
It is hard for me to state that I am retired from nursing - how can that be? For 60 years I have been a nurse and now that is no longer true. Is there a switch in my BRAIN that says you are retired -No longer a nurse. It is weird. My children are all parents, they are all self sufficient, am I now considered 'A RETIRED PARENT?' There is so much to contemplate. When a Rabbi stops having a congregation do they call him "Mr. so and so" or do they still call "Rabbi"? How about a doctor? How about a street cleaner? Do they call him " Joe" or do they say " I want you to meet my friend, you know he's a retired street cleaner."
Oh........I am getting so silly that I am actually laughing out loud as I'm writing the above.