Sixty, retired, and everything I do now happens before six in the evening
Posted as the_long_afternoons
- Looking for
- somebody whose good hours are the same as mine
- Experience
- Thirty one years, both sides, four arrangements of substance.
- Around
- Eimsbüttel, Hamburg
I am no use after about six in the evening and I have stopped fighting it. It is not illness, it is sixty, and everything I have that is any good happens between nine in the morning and five in the afternoon.
Sixty, switch, Eimsbüttel, thirty one years in this. Four arrangements of real length, the last of which ended three years ago when he moved south to be near his son. The awkward part is that this entire world runs at night. Everything anybody proposes begins at eight and finishes at an hour I would ordinarily have been asleep for two hours. I have gone along with it and been half present, which is worse than not going at all.
So I am looking for somebody in the same position, or somebody whose work makes daytime possible. Retired, shift working, self employed, or simply an early riser. Long afternoons are the best thing I have to offer and they are genuinely better than the evenings I used to have.
I switch, mostly leading these days, and I have very little interest in anything strenuous. Protocol, service, discipline that is spoken, and hours of ordinary company around all of it.
Not looking for anyone who will suggest I could manage one late night. I could, once, and then lose two days to it. Not looking for a pen pal. Not looking to be told sixty is not old, which is kind and unnecessary, because I am not upset about it.