Sight to Insight

My classmate in Malaysia has retired. He is fifty five (55) years old. My company doctor has finally decided to call it a day, and soon, he will be sailing in his boat, enjoying the sun rise and the sound of the sea. I know a friend who is golfing all over the world and goes to New Zealand to help out her relatives in business. She lives in Kuala Lumpur. I also know of many who are still enjoying work in their late fifties. Is there such a term called "retirement"? It sounds so dated and so mechanical, that I decided to coin the term " refirement " to bring about a change in mental attitude. Our paradigm should be managed by ourselves, and not be influenced unduly by all the marketing messages out there, attempting to cause us more anxiety than there really is. Let me start with some of these marketing messages. By the way, I define the term, " marketing " as making us buy something which we do not need, as well as making us feel a bit moronic because some