Who is Claude Sancartier ?

Hi! my name is Claude. All my friends call me Sanky a short for Sancartier. I live in Terrebonne Québec thats in Canada, with my lovely wife Diane and my 3 beautiful dauthers Chantale Isabelle and Brigitte and I'm a Grandfather to a good looking boy and two beautiful little girls.
Today i'm free of my professional obligations, ...I'm young and retired ...I hated my job
I believe that this part of our life must be
built around new projects that will permit us to accomplish our dreams,
to live experiences that have been put aside for ages. Anyway to live
differently than around a swimming pool or playing golf, this of course
supposing we have the money to do all of this!
Its not that I disagree with the fact that many retirees concentrate more time to sports and leisure. Because they do have more free time on their hands than before, it's in fact very legitimate that they give themselves well earned good times, after so many years of labour.
But as far I'm concerned retirement should not be built around leisure alone. Men and women as you probably know, leave their jobs younger and they are far from having a foot in their tomb like it was the case in the older days, when people took their "pension".
I think that still being young and full of energy when you retire has a lot to do with the pleasure of being retired: To live differently, to live something else, freely and our own way without constraints.
For me retirement is not the last stage of life. Like the years that have preceded, I see retirement as an apprenticeship, a time of creation, of questioning. This liberty reconquered after many years of work leaves a place for many possibilities, to put in the forefront dreams that have been left in the shadows.
...Gee Wiz that was a beautiful sentence :-)