Website design By BotEap.comRetirement from a job or service takes on a new COVID-19 significance if you had retired late last year, like this writer. Retirement or retirement at 60 usually means you’ve had enough work and hectic at the offices and now deserve to relax at home, which basically translates to staying at home. He doesn’t normally smell rat when told to stay home; but when the people around you start to react to your unemployment situation, you realize that they react in the same way, quite abominable. They say, ‘so, you’re retired… now you’ll be sitting at home! Relax and enjoy!’ Now, you see the difference between staying at home and sitting at home, the latter being a ‘disregarded thing’. You are really shocked when some of your dear relatives and even your dearest spouse also react in a similar way. In particular, your spouse, who has been so used to you going to the office every morning without fail that he/she may start to chafe or eternally find fault with your sit-at-home incarnation. He can continue with her normal activities as before, marketing, kitchen assistant and occasional outings; but the stigma of ‘sitting at home’ does not go away. There is a meaning why I am using the word ‘stigma’. Of course, my clever readers must have guessed the ‘meaning’ by now.

Website design By BotEap.comA little baffled by the ‘stigma’ you might as well try to put up a good fight against: that you are a writer or a painter or a musician or a professional and so your work would continue or that you explain to them the beauty of the majestic saying ‘you retire from a job only, you don’t of life and work.’ Unfortunately, neither of these would hold up with either person or spouse; because whatever the scenario, you will perform it only from ‘sitting at home’.

Website design By BotEap.comHis nervousness is further affected by the general belief that retirees are mostly useless and spent, and that no one is looking for them, except perhaps the life insurance companies. The combination of such ‘forces’ despairs a retired soul; they have the feeling that they are unemployed again and unwanted, so they try to find new jobs or commitments. Some of them, fortunately, find opportunities and accept them with gratitude; not because they find them exciting and adorable, but just because of the overwhelming need to avoid ‘sitting at home’. However, they are very pleased with a discovery: experience, if not skills, is still valued by some in society.

Website design By BotEap.comThe spread of the novel coronavirus or the COVID-19 pandemic has somewhat blurred the distinction between ‘stay at home’ and ‘sit at home’, because suddenly everyone from the busiest professionals to the most grateful retirees around the world They have started to stay at home. , and most of them would challenge the ‘sit at home’ syndrome with the strong defense of ‘working from home’ which, in a way, has been a great relief for retired workers. His stigma becomes negative for a disease that was also considered a stigma; that particular word was eventually neutralized in both cases.

Website design By BotEap.comThe greatest crisis of humanity has taught us the meaning and beauty of ‘home’: where you are always safe and happy, and from where you can work just as well, or perhaps even better than from offices thanks to the state of affairs. state-of-the-art connectivity and integration of the entire world into a single cohesive unit. More changes in the way we behave or think are likely to come by the time the crisis finally comes out, perhaps in the coming months or years. For now, people over the age of 60 are specifically advised to stay home, regardless of whether they sit there or work from there. Conclude with a disclaimer: there has been no generalization of the retirees referred to here.