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I've never understood the point of people "retiring." I don't know about Borel, but how many athletes have made big pronouncements that their done only to return months later. In horse racing, Stevens, Borel, Sutherland, etc. In other sports, Phelps, Favre, Jordan, many boxers.
Heck, my father was a teacher for 35 years. He retired and had a big party with all his former students and colleagues. You would think he won the Nobel prize. The following year another school district needed a teacher and gave him a nice incentive to come back. So he did. I constantly gave him shit about it.
The concept of retirement is silly - there's no finality in life other than death. People leave jobs for various reasons - financial, emotional, physical, mental break. Most of them are still quite capable at doing the same job or another. Why we need to label their departure as the end is baffling.
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