Cause I dont have time to enjoy life now with limited vacation and money?
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I was just (shower) thinking to myself that humans must be all the chimps that couldn’t help but chase some random thing out of the jungle and into the plains/Savannah/desert and were lucky or smart enough to survive. All while the other chimps were happy to chill.
I have ADHD which makes me live every moment as if it were my last. Suck it, article!
Nah, wifey and me don't save for "later". We retired like 30yrs ago after having tried some jobs. It was just not our thing. Will we drown in money in "official" retirement (if we even reach the age of 67) Probably not, but we already lived that life so far and it seemed like a better deal than saving a lot just to maybe enjoy it somewhere in the distant future. Also we were fit enough to actually enjoy all the time. Traveling, hobbies, chilling...
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.
Sounds like you got some trauma
Hu? Nope, very very far from it. Wrong comment you replied to? 😉
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.
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.
Because right now I'm tired and a nap sounds like the most amazing thing I could be spending my time on. Laying, being still, in a slightly chill room, with a sheet or blanket.... it's just so comfortable.
Probably never going to retire, can't afford it and I probably won't live that long. I have retirement accounts but they're more of long term savings for emergency needs. No way I'd be able to save up the tens of thousands of dollars I'd need to catch up even if I got a higher paying job.
"The obsession's in the chasing, and not the apprehending - the pursuit, you see, and never the arrest." - Tom Waits
I just bought a quart of coffee ice cream on Friday for the week. I finished it Saturday night and loved every spoonful of its soft creamy goodness.
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