RVing – Out of Your Comfort Zone?
January 13, 2010
by Jaimie Hall Bruzenakas appeared on RV Home Yet? January 10, 2010 I came across two interesting quotes recently. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone”. Neal Walsh, author of Conversations with God “Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to”. Harry Emerson Fosdick, American clergyman.
In looking at what we call retirement, many take issue with using the words “retire” or “retirement.” Retire means withdraw, move back, go to bed. It sounds so passive. The chances are that you will live another 20 years after “retirement,” perhaps more. Some prefer the term “ThirdAgers.” At ThirdAge.com, they define it as, “We are grown ups who are still growing.” Growing and learning is a lot more positive than withdrawing.
In any case, leaving your job at the end of your working life can mean stepping out of your comfort zone for many. Life will be lived differently – and – it can be time for adventures and activities only dreamed about before that. Both Fosdick and Walsh could have been thinking about RVing in their quotes.
Most people who choose the RV retirement lifestyle are not passive people. They are active. If not at the top of their physical form, they are still curious and want to see new things. It can be uncomfortable at times. It can mean traveling more by the seat of your pants, adding some spice to life. “Where will we end up tonight?!” “This place looks interesting. Let’s stay longer.”
This is a time of life to embrace. It is a time of more leisure – though most folks in this period of life wonder how they ever had time to work, they are so busy. Even those who have to or choose to work often work at different task or work less than in their pre-retirement days. If you work in various places as you travel in an RV it adds new places to explore, new people to get to know, new things to try. On Workamper.com’s New Year’s celebration, a few Workampers shared their adventures. One couple works in an RV park system in Arizona as decorators. Yes, that’s what they do – decorate all the parks. Their job extends to March so it must be more than just the holidays. Another fellow drove a stagecoach in Colorado. Neither had planned on that, but the opportunity came and they seized it. Now they are having a ball!
As you look to those years after work, possibly 20 or 30 years, think about what you are retiring to. How can you step out of your comfort zone and engage in life? Will there be an RV in your future? It is a vehicle to an exciting life!
Jaimie Hall Bruzenak
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