To the editor:
Re: “Young Vancouver couple points way to frugal living,” May 28.
The young couple “hope to retire by their late 30s.” Why is it that retirement is so often idealized as an end in itself? It suggests that people just barely put up with the work they do because retirement is the pot of gold at rainbow’s end.
It may be anything but that unless you’re developing interests during your wage-earning years and have an active plan for when you stop working.
Otherwise “retirement” may simply morph into “re-tie-ment” — you get “tied” into just one more stage of life that may be even more boring than the job you were so happy to leave behind. Fortunately, Rince and Williams seem unlikely to make that mistake.
Neil McBurney,
Vancouver
