Originally Posted by
BCR
We aren’t all together different. I was the most social person I knew from teens until I got ill at 30. I got well and divorced at roughly the same time in late 30s. Since then, after years of being sick and somewhat isolated, I was content with my own company to a degree. So few people actually interest me.
For me, I had more money than I think you probably do all through a long period of inactivity, but I live super frugally on a personal basis now. I live just where it’s convenient to get from A to B. I’ve had big houses and expensive vehicles, but I lost all care about that stuff. I live well below my means. I just thought why do I need a big house when it’s just me?
Not having kids, you’re like me in that you only really have to provide for yourself, thus it’s hard to get motivated to do shit you don’t enjoy. Most of the successful people here or anywhere worked hard to provide for their families.
No man is an island as the saying goes though, and you seem rather isolated. I’m not sure one can be really happy without a social circle and personal relationships Not saying you don’t have one, but you don’t mention it if you do.
I’ve actually worked my ass off for going on 10 years now while living frugally so I can push all my chips in and be done in a few years.I simply don’t discuss it. I wasted 5-7 years after I was ill on some weird mid-life retirement where I just burnt $, but knew I didn’t have enough to last 40 more years or enough if I remarried and had to live conventionally.
Sometimes I’m less busy than others. At the moment it’s 80-90 hours a week. I’m doing really well, but I still mark off days like a guy doing time waiting for a day I never need another $, and the closer it gets, it gets easier.
I’m not working to leave shit to children or impress anyone, I do it solely so that when I’m done, I don’t ever have to do it again. After being sick, I realize how helpless I felt, to and how quickly shit can change.
Everything you hate right now, you run the risk of being captive to in the future with no way out if you don’t make hay while you’re healthy and it’s there to be made. You run the risk of ending up in some shitty low level nursing home surrounded by all those people you hate. That’s a reality when you don’t have kids for someone like us. I have a girlfriend and almost kids in a manner, I spend time there when I have it, but they’re not my kids, and anymore, even people with kids get dumped In a nursing home.
Health can flip very quickly. I know a woman, super healthy and active, got ALS about six months ago and is declining rapidly. Thankfully she’s married with multiple kids and has $. Her life is horrid, but at least she’ll be suffering the indignity of her decline at home.
You have like 8 years until you can collect social security and if you have someone willing to pay you well, go bust your ass now and you won’t ever have to again in less than a decade. You can move to Thailand or Mexico comfortably on a beach with even a few hundred thousand and social security.
If you truly love your life now, you can do it until you die if you just suck it up for a few years. That won’t be an option later in life, and you’ll run the risk of being stuck without the option to work your way out. Money gives you the option to avoid being surrounded by everything you hate. It’s freedom. Go spend a few days with all the scum and think about a time when you don’t have the option to get away from them and if that isn’t motivation, I don’t know what to tell you.
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