Today’s prompt

Daily writing prompt
How do you want to retire?

I honestly never expected to live this long.

I obviously never put any thought into retiring.

When your adolescence and early adult years are spent trying to figure out the best way to kill yourself without looking like a loser, planning for a long life or planning for retirement aren’t really priority number one.

I still have no retirement plans.

As I’ve said before, I don’t exist outside of work.

The childhood I had didn’t lead me towards finding meaning for life within myself. The meaning for my existence has always come from working.

And to anyone who thinks of coming at me with “well, we’ve all had tough childhoods”……… you can go fuck yourself.

I’m tired.

Even more so since I got involved with the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service in 2011.

You can only be called a liar so many times by the Canadian Armed Forces before it really takes a toll on your mental health.

And let’s face it, my mental health wasn’t all that great to begin with before I sent that fateful email off to the Edmonton Police Service in March of 2011.

And believe me, getting called a scam artist by Harjit Sajjan didn’t help my depression or anxiety much either.

The only reason that Sajjan allowed the release of the courts martial transcripts and the CFSIU investigation paperwork in 2020 is he realized that somehow I had become aware of the existence of the documents and he calculated the risk that I would somehow find out the contents of those documents and he didn’t want to have the public find out that I had been telling the truth about CFB Namao while he called me a scam artist to my face.

And my brother’s death has really reinforced for me the fact that no one really gives a shit.

So yeah, I have no intention of sticking around past 2027.

I have no intention of retiring and spending more time with my constant companions of betrayal, depression, anxiety, and CPTSD.