Everyone is different, but here's my anecdata point:
My body rebounded somewhat after I retired, but I'm definitely old, though not old-old, at 66 and 9 months. (Of course some of that may have been ongoing recovery from cancer treatment.)
Dealing with this week's heat wave is taking more out of me than it would have a couple of decades ago.
I have to pick good times for things I once could have done any time I wasn't e.g. massively ill.
And I feel as if keeping on top of everything that needs doing is a constant struggle.
But it nonetheless remains under control, helped by judicious choices of what can be outsourced. (There's no point pretending I can handle home maintenance myself any more, for example.)
On the other hand, I suspect I'm living the male retirement pattern - my job was far too much of who I am, and I can find myself at loss for goals that feel worthwhile. Fortunately I'm not taking this to extremes - either seeking a new job post-retirement, or fading away into a grave, 2 years after retirement.
At any rate, good luck, and however you deal with it seems likely to be good enough, if not quite what you'd like it to be, or what it might have been 20 years ago.
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Everyone is different, but here's my anecdata point:
My body rebounded somewhat after I retired, but I'm definitely old, though not old-old, at 66 and 9 months. (Of course some of that may have been ongoing recovery from cancer treatment.)
Dealing with this week's heat wave is taking more out of me than it would have a couple of decades ago.
I have to pick good times for things I once could have done any time I wasn't e.g. massively ill.
And I feel as if keeping on top of everything that needs doing is a constant struggle.
But it nonetheless remains under control, helped by judicious choices of what can be outsourced. (There's no point pretending I can handle home maintenance myself any more, for example.)
On the other hand, I suspect I'm living the male retirement pattern - my job was far too much of who I am, and I can find myself at loss for goals that feel worthwhile. Fortunately I'm not taking this to extremes - either seeking a new job post-retirement, or fading away into a grave, 2 years after retirement.
At any rate, good luck, and however you deal with it seems likely to be good enough, if not quite what you'd like it to be, or what it might have been 20 years ago.