Enough?

Anniversary day ~ kind of because it's three months since my last nursing shift.

Not a global anniversary day

A ‘just me’ anniversary day

Beautiful gifts and heartfelt congratulations poured from many and every single one appreciated, yet followed up with a wondering ~

What are the congratulations about? That I don't have to work anymore to earn my keep?

But this morning, and maybe for a few mornings before that 

my ‘just me’ question is:

Have I done enough in this life?

Is 'enough' proscribed by employment?

How do I, or anyone else, know about the enough of participating in life?

No Rule Book

No Standards of Care

No Best Practices for Retirement

despite authors that have written about ~

What to look for

How to respond 

despite encouragement to ~

Slow down

Have fun

Do what you want 

when you want to do it

Travel

Somehow there’s a mismatch in all of that.

Earning my keep being greater than a paycheque,

I’ve come up with ~ and borrowed ~ a couple of my own

   Every day is Saturday (unless I have to match someone else's schedule)

   Do the next right thing (could be making soup or serving soup to others).

“The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, 

and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know….

Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.

~ John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams