We can decide to live with joy. Or we can allow ourselves to live looking back with bitterness. We can be bitter about all the things we wanted to do, but felt too constrained to risk. We can be bitter for all the hours we gave to a company that was able to say goodbye to us, without so much as remembering to send a card at Christmastime. We can be bitter because we chose security and independence rather than depth and companionship. We can decide to be bitter because at the end, only the end is left. But whichever we decide, bitterness or joy, decide we must. The rest of our life depends on it.

It can take a while before we begin to realize that retirement really plunges us into joy. But if we decide to live this new, unscripted time with joy, then life will come pouring into us, almost more fully than we can sometimes bear.

This is a quote from the book, The Gift of Years - Growing Older Gracefully by Joan Chittister.

So I hope that you are feeling joy in working with your horses. I hope that you are at a place in your life where you are content with your life and the new freedoms that retirement may bring to you. I hope that you can convey joy, peace and contentedness to the horses you work with and the people in your life.

This is a link to the Business Insider article.

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Here's a link to the Second Half Horsemanship website.