UNCLE OWUSU.

After living in the UK for 38 years and at the age of 71, Uncle Owusu finally relocated to Ghana this year to live in his 6-bedroom house which took him 9 years to complete.

Now in Ghana and in his house, Uncle Owusu lives in the living room of the house downstairs while his caretaker lives upstairs in his huge master bedroom.

This is because Uncle Owusu cannot climb the stairs without the help of another person.

Even with help, it takes him 15 minutes to make the climb.

As such, Uncle Owusu has decided to stay downstairs in the living room as all 6 bedrooms are upstairs.

The house has a living room, toilet and kitchen downstairs; 3 rooms on the first floor and another 3 rooms (including the master bedroom) on the second/last floor.

This is surely not how Uncle Owusu anticipated his retirement.

But that is the reality of his journey.

This will be the life of many other Africans living abroad and building mansions back home.

In fact, if you are building a dream house for yourself to live in and the house is not ready by the time you attain the age of 50, forget about it!

Uncle Owusu virtually wasted 38 years of his life doing menial jobs abroad, hoping to go and retire back home in his mansion and enjoy life.

But, now he has no life to enjoy and someone else is sleeping in his master bedroom.

Like most aged persons, Uncle Owusu is not even able to enjoy a bottle of Malt at his age because it will shoot up his blood sugar level.

Yet, he said he was working hard all his life in order to enjoy life, which includes eating and drinking the finest foods and drinks, when he retires.

Now, he is only able to eat fruit and vegetable salads - and even that, without dressing!

He cannot even eat any of the fine meats out there without his cholesterol sending warning signs.

That is the life of Uncle Owusu in retirement?

This will be the story of more than half of us.

The best thing to do is to take mini-retirements now and enjoy the luxuries of life now that you still have the strength to do so!

We must all learn a lesson from the story of Uncle Owusu.

May Uncle Owusu never happened to us.

Forget

He don chop life abroad

Na why I like Oyinbo life be this... They hardly work during summers. They travel around the world on vacations. Na Black dey run their shifts.

We work all year round and before you know it old age don come. Like the preacher said; vanity upon vanity, all is vanity.