{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Bulles de bonheur","provider_url":"https:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/en\/","title":"Retired, but not retiring - Bulles de bonheur","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/en\/retired-but-not-retiring\/\">Retired, but not retiring<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\n<!--\/\/--><![CDATA[\/\/><!--\n\t\t\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n\t\t!function(d,l){\"use strict\";var e=!1,n=!1;if(l.querySelector)if(d.addEventListener)e=!0;if(d.wp=d.wp||{},!d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage)if(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if(t)if(t.secret||t.message||t.value)if(!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var r,i,a,s=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),n=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),c=0;c<n.length;c++)n[c].style.display=\"none\";for(c=0;c<s.length;c++)if(r=s[c],e.source===r.contentWindow){if(r.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message){if(1e3<(a=parseInt(t.value,10)))a=1e3;else if(~~a<200)a=200;r.height=a}if(\"link\"===t.message)if(i=l.createElement(\"a\"),a=l.createElement(\"a\"),i.href=r.getAttribute(\"src\"),a.href=t.value,o.test(a.protocol))if(a.host===i.host)if(l.activeElement===r)d.top.location.href=t.value}}},e)d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",t,!1),d.addEventListener(\"load\",t,!1);function t(){if(!n){n=!0;for(var e,t,r=-1!==navigator.appVersion.indexOf(\"MSIE 10\"),i=!!navigator.userAgent.match(\/Trident.*rv:11\\.\/),a=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),s=0;s<a.length;s++){if(!(e=a[s]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))t=Math.random().toString(36).substr(2,10),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t);if(r||i)(t=e.cloneNode(!0)).removeAttribute(\"security\"),e.parentNode.replaceChild(t,e)}}}}(window,document);\n\/\/--><!]]>\n<\/script><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/en\/retired-but-not-retiring\/embed\/\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Retired, but not retiring&#8221; &#8212; Bulles de bonheur\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AdobeStock_136966374.jpeg","thumbnail_width":1500,"thumbnail_height":997,"description":"The scene takes place in my friend\u2019s shop in the provinces. It\u2019s mid-August, and she\u2019s speaking on the phone to a woman whose fridge won\u2019t close properly while gesturing to a customer that she won\u2019t be a minute. She feels sorry for the woman on the other end of the phone who has a broken fridge door in 40\u00b0C heat, and offers to send a technician in two days\u2019 time between previously booked appointments in the same neighbouring village. When she hangs up, the man in the shop \u2013 a pensioner who is a regular customer \u2013 apologises for having eavesdropped on the conversation and offers to go and see the woman in question as he is going shopping in the village that same afternoon. He says he will take his toolbox with him and make himself useful \u2013 free of charge. My friend calls the woman back &#8211; and offers her the services of the kind pensioner! My friend subsequently found out that the unofficial repairman went to the woman\u2019s house that day at 2 o\u2019clock\u2013 she was also a pensioner \u2013 and she was so taken by the man\u2019s initiative that she\u2019d gone and signed up with a charity to offer her dressmaking services. Making yourself useful, letting people know about it and listening to others are some of the many things I tend to forget when I\u2019m glued to my smartphone. This anecdote reminds me that life isn\u2019t just a job description, but an infinite possibility of being and feeling useful. What about you? How can you be useful \u2013 before or after retirement?"}