Employed verses Retired mindset clash

I've reached the age where my cohort is retiring. Or, has been retired for awhile. There is tension. 

Retirees top topics of conversation:

1. grandchildren
2. endless personal medical updates
3. food
4. booze
5. holidays
6. listening and discussing music from 70 years ago (Miles) , or 50 (Beatles, Stones)
7. endless stories of "back when I was great" and it's variant, "the world is going to hell".
8. complaining about "young people"  (young people are now 50 and under)

Attitude to time: Accountable to few. Laidback with occasional flashes of anxiety. La de la...

Musicians who are still in the game topics of conversation:

1. who we are playing with
2. what we are creating
3. where we are playing
4. who is doing what, where
5. who we want to play with
6. what we are practicing and studying
7. new music we are exploring
8. how we stay in shape
9. new gear
10. endless stories of "back when I was great"  peppered with exciting discussions of projects left to do

Attitude to time: Accountable, pressured. Excited, fully alive with occasional flashes of anxiety. 

More on this later. 

Best, 

​David Story