We often take wrong turns in life, or unexpected ones, and end up in places, circumstances and situations which were unintended, or at the very least, not included in our childhood dreams. But the fact that one’s original plans failed to materialize in full, or resulted in an altered state different from nascent dreams, does not make the consequential endpoint any less valid or fulfilling.
Life often takes alternate twists and turns different from one’s original and neat packaging — based upon what life “should be” as opposed to what life “is” in the harsh reality of everyday existence.
For the Federal and Postal Worker who is beset with a medical condition such that the medical conditions prevents one from performing one or more of the essential elements of one’s job, the trauma of the condition itself is enough of a twist in life to contend with, leaving aside the decision to change one’s career and intended path of one’s dreams.
Regret and remorse often abounds, but one should look at it in a different light. Rarely is a life which fails to change from the paradigm formulated in childhood, relevant or fulfilling throughout adulthood.
Federal Disability Retirement benefits is an available tool for the Federal and Postal Worker who must consider a turn in life. Filed through the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, it is available precisely for those Federal and Postal Workers under FERS or CSRS who must face the prospect of make a turn — and where a medical condition is involved, it is neither a “wrong” one, nor one which must necessarily disrupt a childhood paradigm. It simply is one of those “ises” in life.
Sincerely,
Robert R. McGill, Esquire
OPM Disability Retirement, Et Cetera… 