After looking at all the pros and cons.... signed up for SS today. Woohoo !!
You guys you can’t equate health with not having a purpose. That is so wrong. You never know when you will be struck with a serious illness.
I don’t think that was the point. Nobody’s invulnerable, but I think a sense of purpose or meaning carries a definite survival advantage. It doesn’t need to be from your work, but could be.
Victor Frankl made a powerful argument for that view in “Man’s Search for Meaning”.
Seems to me that "purpose" is a nebulous thing. We took our SS at 62. Perhaps if I had had a career that made me jump out of bed with glee every morning, I would have postponed.
Purpose doesn't have to be work-related, but a lot of people find their identity and sense purpose in their work and career. But it can be found anywhere--in being there for family, or in crossing things off a bucket list, or finishing that quilt or that book or whatever.
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it--every, every minute?" Emily Webb, Our Town
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