Retirement is what you work all your life for. When you're young you work and save, hoping to have the money to enjoy your old age. So when you're young you should spend the money you make by trying to better yourself. For when you're old, you're scared to spend the money you have. When you're trying to raise a family you live payday to payday. And when you're old you live day by day. What I am looking forward to is to not have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and go to work. Instead, I could get up and go fishing for the day and not have to worry about the kids, if they are home yet or not. So if I went up North with my wife, we would not have to pack up and go as soon as we do. Yes, to have that kind of time would be nice for you may not have too many years like that left. You must always remember you're a long time dead. 

Background Information

Retirement is something that working people look forward to. It is the day they won't have to get up so early. The day they can do what they want instead of what someone tells them to do. But will retirement make a person really happy? Talk about what might happen when a person retires. Talk about people you know who have retired, or yourself (if you're retired).

Questions

1. What does Ron say that you work all your life for?

2. Do you think it's a good idea to save all your money for your old age?

3. What does living payday to payday mean?

4. What do you think Ron means by old people living day by day?

5. What time does Ron have to get up to go to work?

6. What does Ron like to do?

7. Where do Ron and his wife go fishing?

8. What's another word for scared?

9. What's the opposite of worry?

10. What do you think the last line of the story means?