I Forgot

when you retire you forget that other people still work
they cannot receive phone calls
they do not have time for lunch
they are too tired at night to party

you forget they want to be left alone on weekends
it is their only free time the whole week

until I retired. I never had any kind of freedom or spare time
It is curious how I forgot that in a mere fifteen months
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