Waiting for retirement

Will retirement ever come? I hope so since the alternative is not of my liking. You know, I think life is completely reversed from the way it should be. You work your butt off all of your life and by the time you can travel and see the world you are too darn old to enjoy it the way it was supposed to be. I think we should figure out how to get our money up front (sort of an advanced salary for twenty years. After we have traveled for twenty years and seen the world, we can get us a nice little cabin on the lake somewhere and find our artistic side and do our thing. We all have an artistic side, some of us find it but a lot of us don't even know we possess it. So what will I do in a couple of years when I hang up the work apron?
Well, I do have a plan because I, for one, know that if you just stop doing everything and think you are going to sit and watch the birds or something like that, you will end up going star raving mad. Human beings are born to interact with other humans. That is why we have a brain and a mouth.
My plan is simple. I plan to do a lot of writing about subjects that I have always wanted to write about. I simply love to write and it fullfills me in a way that nothing else can, with the exception of my wife and daughters and grand children, present and future. They are the most important thing that has ever happened to me.
I already have a war/love novel out. I also have a murder mystery and the sequel to it out. My last book is a wagon train adventure set in 1868. I have two books coming that will be my best work yet. "Winds of chance" is set in current time in Martha's Vinyard. It is about young people with the world at their feet. The book after that is titled "Hilltop Manor" and will be a historical fiction book about a family who own a thriving cotton plantation in Savannah, Georgia in late 1861. The civil war comes along and turns the family upside down.
I will never stop writing as long a I live because I write for me and people who need to escape into the world of fiction. If I can make one person in this world happy and a better person through my writing, I will have done my thing.
You know, we enter this world and are automatically drilled that material things are all that matter. Well, the matters of the soul are the real things that matter in this world. You are hear a millisecond in time compared to the big picture. A wise person once said it is not the two dates that are associated with a persons life (Birth-death) but what you do with the time in between.

There are so many talented writers out there that are never discovered because they lack the funds to get their profile out there. That is a shame because the world deserves good literature and are being deprived. The major publishers are as bad as the music business. If you are not at the right place at the right time, you will be destined to roam the unabscure world forever, no matter how good your book is.
All we can do is to keep trying each year and by all means keep writing because what is in our minds must come out in the form of the written word or we will explode.
Thanks for listening.

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