Retirement is often described as a financial milestone. But in reality, it’s a transition of identity.
A shift from:
- earning to spending
- structure to self-directed time and
- achievement to meaning-making
Financial readiness answers one questions: ‘Can I retire?” But it doesn’t answer the deeper one: “Who am I when I am no longer defined by work?”
This is where many people discover retirement is not an ending but a redesign of identity, rhythm, and meaning.
And that redesign is often the part not everyone prepares for.