Early Retirement Through No Fault of Your Own

Early Retirement through No Fault of Your Own

So, you had to retire through no fault of your own.

You think it’s the end of the world, you feel like giving up on life because you are disabled.

You can’t do the things youwere able to do before, like going out and playing your favourite sport and enjoying a normal life with your family and friends before early retirement was forced on you through no fault of your own.

Does life have to be boring because you became disabled?

Were you a boring person before you became disabled?

Will you still be a boring person?

Will you make life hell for yourself and others because you had to retire early through no fault of your own?

You can still live a near normal life if you choose but that would be entirely up to you.

Remember, it’s really up to you, to make the best of what is left of your life. No-one else can help you if you don’t help yourself.

You DON’T HAVE to stay at home, looking at T.V. all day for company and forgetting about the outside world.

O.K. I am disabled but I’m not letting that stop me from going out and about. I also meet people like myself who had to retire through no fault of their own.

I had a stroke, which left me speechless and wheel chair bound but I got, and am still, involved with different groups of disabled people.

I like to remind society that we are human beings that we have not lost the ability to think and feel.

I know there are people worse off than me, but we can all help each other. We must let people know that because we can’t do things as quickly and as well as before it doesn’t mean we should give up.

I realise we need the help and support of family and friends and that they have to adjust and change to a new way of life.

So I say to myself, and to you, don’t give up, get on with life in the best way possible, enjoy yourself.

Let society know that you can still live a new way of life even though you had to take early retirement.

This is my personal view of life since I became disabled in October 1992 at the young age of 47 years. P.J Daly (The Quiet Man)