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(A) In earlier phases, most people have obligations to family and work.
(B) Initially retirement seems like a constant holiday or honeymoon phase.
(C) Well, here is the opportunity to live a life at your own pace and on your own terms.
(D) Once you adjust to this pace of life, you would not want to trade it for the pressure.

(A) In earlier phases, most people have obligations義務；責任 to family and work. 

(B) Initially retirement seems like a constant頻繁的, 經常發生 holiday or honeymoon phase. 

(C) Well, here is the opportunity to live a life at your own pace and on your own terms期，期限. 

(D) Once you adjust to this pace of life, you would not want to trade it for the pressure推, 壓力. 

You have successfully passed through many phases階段，時期 of life, overcome對付, 克服 many a hurdle欄架, 問題, 障礙 in your long career, seen the ups and downs, and so on等等.

43 It should mean retiring from work, not life. It’s like changing from the fast lane路 to the slow one where the drive is far more relaxed, scenic風景優美, and pleasurable.

44 It’s just another phase階段，時期 in one’s life. Recall回憶起 the things about working you cringed at, like getting up early no matter how you felt, meeting folks人們, （尤指某一群體或類型的）人們 you didn’t want to, putting on the tie you felt would strangle勒死，掐死 you, and the like.

Didn’t you always wish you could take a break from it all? 45 You should take it with the same boldness勇敢；大膽 you showed in the earlier phases階段，時期. 46 So, a major upheaval激變；動盪 like retirement is bound必然的；註定 to be followed by corollaries必然結果 ranging from depression, irritability易怒的，暴躁 to a sense of displacement被迫移居他鄉, and uselessness無用.

Forbes福布斯 once said that retirement kills more people than hard work ever did. Yes, this is true if you decide to retire completely完全地，徹底地 from life.