Abstract
Personal journals constitute a valuable source of data about the lived experience of growing old. This article discusses a published personal journal written by Alan H. Olmstead. The major theme of this journal is the need to fashion routines, disciplines, and purposes for living in the first months after retirement. This theme is explored in terms of the concept of existential meaning. Reker and Wong's static model of existential meaning is contrasted with Becker's dynamic model of transference heroics, whose major point about the tension between individualism and conformity is echoed in Olmstead's journal.
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