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I retired at age 53. That was 10 years ago. Here are some of the things I noticed and learned.Retirement is not like vacation. In retirement you have a different relationship with time. Vacations are usually time limited you are aware of this while on vacation. The realization that you are not going back to work is something you can’t prepare for until you are retired.You not only retired from something (work). You should retire to something. You have to know what you want to do with yourself and your life. No one can tell you. You would be surprised at how many people don’t know who they are or what they want to do.Everyone has a bucket list of things they think they will do in retirement. In reality some of those things you will decide are unimportant. The rest you will complete in 6 months. After you’ve finished your bucket list you have to figure what to do nextThere is also the problem of loneliness because everyone else is working. You have to be comfortable with being alone if you retire before everyone else. You should actively plan things to do with other people.Within a year you will lose touch with many of the people you worked with and saw and talked to every day.Retirement doesn’t cost as much as you thought. Before you retire you should finally track your expenses and estimate future expenses. Learn how to use a spreadsheet. Track EVERYTHING for 3–4 months. Note there are 3 types of expenses. a) daily expenses b) regular yearly expenses c) unexpected expenses. Plan for an emergency fund.Learn to live within your means and enjoy it without going out too far.Your pace of life will slow down. Learn to accept it and relax a little.Accept your new life. Don’t regret your past life. Don’t be embarrassed to tell others you are retired and that you are enjoying it (if you are). Others may not understand you.Understand that there is both financial independence and retirement. If you are financially independent then you are totally in control of what you want to do each day. If you want to continue “working” and collect a paycheck then that is up to you. Enjoy.(late addition) If you are really looking for something to do then consider volunteering. Volunteering can take many forms. There are huge number of opportunities out there. Research says that doing something for others is a powerful way to increase your own happiness.

I retired at age 55. That was 8 years ago. Here are some of the things I noticed and learned.Retirement is not like vacation. In retirement you have a different relationship with time. Vacations are usually time limited and you are aware of this while on vacation. The realization that you are not going back to work is something you can’t prepare for until you are retired.You not only retired from something (work). You should retire to something. You have to know what you want to do with yourself and your life. No one can tell you. You would be surprised at how many people don’t know who they are or what they want to do.Everyone has a bucket list of things they think they will do in retirement. In reality some of those things you will decide are unimportant. The rest you will complete in 6 months. After you’ve finished your bucket list you have to figure what to do nextSomeone else mentioned loneliness because everyone else is working. That is true. You have to be comfortable with being alone if you retire before everyone else. You should actively plan things to do with other people.Within a year you will lose touch with many of the people you worked with and saw and talked to every day.Retirement doesn’t cost as much as you thought. Before you retire you should finally track your expenses and estimate future expenses. Learn how to use a spreadsheet. Track EVERYTHING for 3–4 months. Note there are 3 types of expenses. a) daily expenses b) regular yearly expenses c) unexpected expenses. Plan for an emergency fund.Learn to live within your means and enjoy itYour pace of life will slow down. Learn to accept it and relax a little.Accept your new life. Don’t regret your past life. Don’t be embarrassed to tell others you are retired and that you are enjoying it (if you are). Others may not understand you.Understand that there is both financial independence and retirement. If you are financially independent then you are totally in control of what you want to do each day. If you want to continue “working” and collect a paycheck then that is up to you. Enjoy.(late addition) If you are really looking for something to do then consider volunteering. Volunteering can take many forms. There are huge number of opportunities out there. Research says that doing something for others is a powerful way to increase your own happiness.

Child abandonment is very rare in the United States in the first place, so it is very unlikely that a lost child would go “unclaimed”. Child abandonment is also a serious crime, although there are laws to permit mothers of babies to drop infants off at a hospital or police station , if the mother is in a crisis, and she can do so without receiving punishment.When a child goes missing in the United States it is treated as a very urgent matter. There is a system called “Amber Alert” where when a child goes missing the report is widely published via texts, billboards, radio announcements and the like. Teams of police officers, volunteers, tracking dogs and other agencies are also dispatched when a child goes missing.So, there would not even likely be a scenario where a person found a child wandering about lost and went to the police station with the child. If the person found a lost child, they would call the emergency number reporting that they had located the child and the police and ambulances would then rush to the scene and bundle the child off to the hospital to make sure that there was no injury while lost.In the rare cases where a child is abandoned, such as infants that are left at hospitals, or the even rarer cases of older children left in a public place, the state places the child in foster care and eventually out for adoption. Adopting a child is a complex legal process and the parents must prove they are suitable.What you describe, might be the way someone adopts a lost pet they find on the street, but the controls over child custody here are very tightly enforced. In fact, anyone who takes in a child without proper authorization, while meaning well, could be charged with something like “kidnapping” in the form of “custodial interference”. So, if a runaway child tries to take shelter with kindly adults, those adults can be arrested.