One of the most difficult things about living in retirement, especially for us elder orphans living in a retirement community, is “time drift“. I don’t know if I invented that phrase, but it certainly applies to me at this time in my life.

I can count on one hand the number of people who have come into my apartment for a visit in the last three years. That, and the fact that I am mostly inept at things socially, means that I live my life almost totally on my own. Days just seem to drift into weeks, and weeks into years without much notice.

I think that is one of the reasons I bought this most recent techie thing for my apartment. The wall time/weather clock, especially since it is lighted, helps me to keep track of the time dimension. Mostly, I am pretty much unaware of the days as they pass. One seems unrecognizable from the next.

My Aspie traits allow me to stay focused on a subject and pretty much disregard time and everything else going on around me. My usual go to bedtime is around 10pm but due to focusing on an aspect of this blog, it was after 1am before I realized that it had passed. Then around 4:30am I woke up thinking about something and couldn’t get back to sleep. So, here I am at my computer again with only 4 hours of sleep. That kinda reminds me of my college days, four hours of sleep was the norm back then.

Time just drifts along now. In some ways, I kinda like the fact, but ultimately, it proves to be both an asset and a liability.