Munaeem's Blog

  Imagine spending your whole life waiting. Waiting for that golden age when work is finally over. Waiting for the day you can sit on a beach with nothing but time. Waiting for retirement. That’s the story we’re sold from childhood: study hard, land a job, grind for decades, then— maybe —enjoy freedom. But what if that’s one of the biggest lies of modern life? The Script We Don’t Question From the start, we’re handed a timeline: school, job, retirement, rest. Millions follow it without a second thought. Work for forty years, then, if health allows, enjoy a few “good years” before the end. The disturbing truth? Studies show retirement often brings not joy but depression. The University of Michigan found a 40% higher risk of clinical depression among retirees compared to workers. Because when your identity has been chained to your job for decades, who are you when the title disappears? Alan Watts called it the deferred life plan —living as if today doesn’t count, as if life on...