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Why You Keep Saving Your Life for Later, According to Psychology (www.vice.com)
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[–] -2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

My dad worked his ass off, spent most of it while doing so, ended up with nothing and didn’t know what to do with all the sparetime after being retired. Died a year of boredom later. I never wanted to end that sad and pathetic.

Mostly referring to this.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago*

    Ah okay, sorry. Though if you'd call that trauma, you haven't seen trauma 😊

    It was sad to watch, but I was already 20yrs retired before he even thought about it. And called me lazy for that lol. He was a well conditioned boomer-worker-bee. Yet didn't even manage a boomer-house by then. But still, life was all about working. Just because.

    Might've phrased it a bit off in hindsight.

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