What are your biggest challenges?

So what will be the challenges

I face in the New Year?

First up there’s accepting

That I need to change at all.

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You get to be a certain age

You get stuck in your ways.

I know I’m less than perfect

But I’ve always been this way.

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You can just give up trying

Accept things as they are.

Must there always be a challenge?

Do we need to raise the bar?

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Too often I’m a passenger

I do not pull my weight

I don’t initiate or plan that much

I more just tag along.

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I’m very bad at friendship

I fail to keep in touch

If others made no effort

I’d not go out that much.

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I’d not say that I’m lazy

I do my share of work

But mostly stuff that interests me

And other stuff I’ll shirk.

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I’m loving my retirement

And time to call my own

But do I have a purpose?

I’d have to say I don’t.

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So time for reappraisal

To think through what I’m for.

There won’t be changes quickly

But I’ll let you know the score.