I am not sure about continuing to live a “big life”, but I don’t want my world to shrink down to nothing the way my parents life had. I feel like I have lived a “big life” already, and it was busy, stressful, and I don’t want to do it any more. There’s a good balance. I enjoy getting a regular night of sleep, and not having to do things that I don’t want any more, now that we’re retired.
My husband still wants to do “big” things. Learn how to fly a floatplane, heck, buy a floatplane. I haven’t flown an airplane in three years, I don’t want to do that any more. Buy a huge boat. No thank you, I don’t want to do that. I’ll travel constantly, but I’m tired of owning and maintaining more things. I’m thinking that I should branch out to classes at my gym, relearning how to swim, cooking classes, things that might be interesting and useful. I’d like to do different things, but not huge projects that I’m not interested in. I really enjoy living without stress.