The sock drawer - Although this new post-retirement awareness I'm having seems relatively inconsequential, I find it stirring. My clothes and my work clothing in particular are a reflection of who I am and how I would like to be perceived by others. As I sorted through my dress socks, and started separating those worth keeping and those that to be discarded, I had a pang of emotion. I was detaching from my old job. Do people have levels of detachment from our employment, and that there are different experiences that trigger emotions? For me, today it was the dress-sock drawer. I felt sad, nostalgic. And then I felt the separateness of being retired.
Related, during the last year of my employment I'd made a decision to buy two more pairs of dress shoes at a time I thought I could have made my existing pairs last through the end of the year. I also bought two pairs of dress slacks. It's interesting to note that as I approached my retirement date, I started considering whether or not I needed to buy clothes I'd only wear at work.
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