.....shhhh. I'm listening.

Last night before dinner, my bf started talking about how he's contemplating his retirement.
He said, ''I'll work, what, another eight, nine years, then, you know...What am I going to do ? Go further into the woods with no electricity and completely isolate myself ?''
Pause.
Then: ''I'm thinking about it.''

In retrospect, I find it odd that I did not appear in his projections into the future.
I simply wasn't there.