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The Retirement Newsletter: Another birthday — it makes you think!
Welcome
Welcome to issue -101 — a short newsletter this week, as I have been busy celebrating my birthday.
Yes, 101 weeks until I retire. And this week saw yet another milestone on my journey to retirement. It was my birthday. I am another year older. Twenty-one again!
Actually, I wouldn’t like to be 21 again. Maybe 27 or 28? No idea why those ages, but they appeal. If you could pick, what age would you be? Leave a comment, and a reason for that age, below.
So, my birthday.
My birthday
Birthdays are funny things. Why do we celebrate them?
One thing I have noticed about birthdays is that they are milestones.
Your first birthday, your fifth, becoming a teenager, being sixteen, your eighteenth (big in the UK as that is the legal drinking age), twenty-one (big in the USA as that is the legal drinking age). And then it all slows down.
Plus, when you are younger than 10, you might say, “oh, I am seven and a half”. But once you are over ten, that all stops.
