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I for one am looking forward to retirement. I am planning on being high all the time, gardening and yelling at children passing by my property. Growing my hair and beard, wearing a bandana and a tie-dyed shirt and paying for my coffee in quarters in a wooden treasure box I carry as a purse. The goal is to liberate the crazy.

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All the things you think you would enjoy might not hit the spot at all when you will retire.

Learned that when took 2 years off work.

Yea. Having a purpose and bonding with other people on the way to achieving it are underrated elements of being working age.

If you're not conscious about it in retirement, it's easy to just do nothing, waste away, and find out many years too late. You actually need different ingredients to feel satisfied.

You can still have a purpose and achieve things, just not for the money

I may or may not. But tell us more about what your experience was in that two years I'm curious.

I didn't have a routine/discipline to organize myself to do something meaningful, so it was pursuing hobbies with minimal effort. Afyer a while all the things I enjoyed, because they would help me relax after work felt pointless and I went trough a short depression caused by a breakup which made the meaningless part feel even more real.

Also when you have free time, you burn trough the cash reserves so quickly because of so many thing you can do with money.

I thought that when I'll be older I'll drink more and be happy all the time, but if you are not stressed by anything and in a sad place, alcohol doesn't feel good, just pointless.

These are all things you can do now. Why wait?

I can but doing so will cause instability in my social standing and I cannot risk that while I have others depending on me for stability.

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