Being Healthy Enough to Retire

I also find it charming. Have a nice day, friend!

I want to be able to stably enjoy many years of working on whatever is of interest to me without needing to exchange money for it. So accumulating enough wealth for that is super reasonable. It looks like you don’t mind spending most of your time working for survival and pursuing your interests as fully as possible right now. That’s also a reasonable way to live.

These are just choices different people making different choices

The thing that's hard to predict from health is that even people unhealthy and disabled generally find life worth living. It's easy to say you'll kill yourself when "the time comes" but when you get there you will simply realize the time hasn't come yet.

You can't know until you're there of course but very very few people choose suicide when experiencing disability, despite how popular this sentiment is among the healthy.

It's much more realistic, and vulnerable, to accept that the time when you are healthy and able is only a fraction of your life. You won't die when that part is over, you will probably have many years left to be with people, and in a world, you will have come to care about. You can choose to die then but why. Disability, frailty, and decline are as much a part of life as the vigor and foolishness of youth are. You deny part of your humanity by rejecting that.

i wouldn't trade my health for a trillion dollars.

Lots of folks are in great health but find themselves voluntarily bed ridden for lack of motivation to do anything else. It can often happen after no longer needing to work. Saying you'll do XYZ once you have the freedom isn't the same as actually being in that situation. People under appreciate the mental component of the puzzle.