Now that I am retired and finally enjoying life, I wonder why my former classmates and contemporaries are frenziedly working and grasping at every opportunity to be gainfully occupied. It just doesn't make sense to me.

Retirement is all about me. It is the time to be whatever I want to be (not that it wasn't even before I retired). Nobody can tell me what to think, say, and do (not that anybody could even before I retired).