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To younger people reading this post: if you don't know what you want in life, make more money. Set a FU money target and go for it. Use whatever legal means.

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this is a surefire way to have a monster midlife crisis. chasing money will all but ensure you don’t spend much time enjoying your life and come 40’s/50’s you’ll realize you can’t get burried with a pile of cash and possessions you made and midlife crisis will hit you like a truck.

to younger people - do the exact opposite of this. do as much shit before you hit 40/50, travel as much as you can, love as much as you can… money will come and go, your 20s/30s will never come again

If they don't know what to do when young, better figure out how they can make more money and then either retire to seek or be good at something so they find it.

exactly

To young people: the truth is somewhere in the middle. Don't spend your youth chasing money, but don't ignore money either, because while money doesn't buy happiness, it could make a lot of miserable things much less miserable.

Also, in a typical old-boomer-says-do-as-what-I-say-not-as-what-I-do fashion... do exercise regularly. One day you will wake up and find out your right arm will not go up higher than Heil Hitler position. And it takes a year to get it back to somewhat normal.

for many the midlife crisis is when you find that middle :)

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