Retirement Contemplation Pillows

Middle-Of-Life Choices

At the end of each day, Gary had approximately 7 minutes of free time – which left him feeling very vulnerable.

"Ooh, ooh, I know this koan! I got it! Pick me! Pick me!"

'Hey! Contemplate your own navel!'

Maximilian could see far away places,but he never told anyone.

"I could catch a bicyclist, well maybe not a bicyclist, but I could catch a jogger, definitely."

"I've switched my energy provider, and I switched my broadband provider. Now I want to switch my misery provider."

"Geez, from way up here it almost looks like there’s hope for humanity."

Zenemies.

"Wait... what was it I came up here for?"

"The overthinker"

"My career's in shreds, but on the bright side, so are my files."

'Are you not thinking what I'm not thinking?'

Rodin's Thinker.

Not much money, glory, or praise

"Lately, I've been trying to spend less time staring at the glowing orb."

"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! … Emerson" "Good boy!"

"After searching for the sun all night, it finally dawned on me..."

'Being a nobody isn't so bad...You don't have to worry about becoming a has-been.'

"I've thought about retiring, but there's a great deal of gravity under this chair."

Thought bubble mirrors the cloud in the sky.

"How come I can't remember what I forget, but I always remember that I forgot something!"

If I could sell my experience for half of what it cost me I could retire.

Guys looks in the mirror and sees himself as a prisoner.

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I... I... I..."

'It's normal -- Enlightenment freaks a lot of people out.'

Tonight's Lecture: Globalization. I've never worried about my job going overseas --- None of my jobs ever went anywhere.

"These brisk fall afternoons remind me of Chekhov, which reminds me of Putin, then Trump, the alt-right, facism, nuclear weapons ... let's go home."

'At least hanging around street corners reminds us we're at a crossroads in our lives.'

"Is it just me, or do these sculptural forms of light and shadow make you think about the ephemeral nature of life, the spirituality of the moment eclipsing our futile quest for cheese?"

Ever thought of early retirement?

'Hey! - why bicker all evening when we could be watching a film about ideological genocide.'

'Sometimes I think about getting away from all this and get a job as a cab driver in New York city...'

"Exactly what is this 'nothing' I've been hearing so much about?"

Soren Kierkegaard