Originally Posted by Unregistered

Article in today's Straits Times exactly indicates my view. The article says that people who retire early become clinically depressed, their health fails and they die early. The article also says that the study shows that initially they get a lift from early retirement, which is probably what you are feeling now, but eventually it leads to clinical depression. As I said, you haven't done this long enough to know the boredom and depression, which will eventually come. Luckily I got back to work.