Especially getting older, I do this a lot more. Looking at things I want to do that ive been putting off, for example. If I have the money, I’m doing it. Now I’m not going full Yes Man on it, but I much prefer living like this. You could very easily die tomorrow so you should do everything you want to while you can, basically.
A lot of people I know seem to lock themselves in this invisible box of “I can’t” when they totally can. Obviously, finances is all of our biggest limiting factor in this. But even a lot of wealthier people just dont ever really do what they really want, either out of fear of being judged or failing etc. And then, boom, brain cancer, you’re dead in 6 months.
So I say, live it up!!
Now this doesnt mean blow your life savings on cocaine, unless thats really your thing.
I have some pretty significant, incurable and somewhat untreatable health issues, so a lot. I cannot express how glad and relieved I am that I lived so much in my 20s before my health crashed.
Live while you can.
I convinced myself decades ago that I’d be dead by 50. Welp. Every year is a bonus year now!
Well, I’m in that state right now, and I think I’m gonna be in it continuously until the biopsy results come back.
increasingly more as time passes. I don’t think its as much getting old as the social contract increasingly breaking down. I mean even if you don’t die does the future look like its going to get any better with more opportunities. Not for where im standing.
My wife had 2 strokes last year. I am quitting my job of 22 years next month mostly due to the company’s work from home policy.
I know not everyone is in a position to just up and quit their jobs, especially this day and age, but life is short.
On one hand, planning for the future makes sense.
On the other, I don’t want to be the richest man in the graveyard.
I had a tattoo I wanted for years. I was like well it’s going to be really expensive and I shouldn’t spend the money on it while I have these expenses coming up. A few years and a divorce later, well, I really want this tattoo, but I have student loans and a car loan and it would be really irresponsible of me to pay for a tattoo instead of putting extra money towards those. Yes I could work a bunch of OT to pay for it, but if I work a bunch of OT then I should take that money and put it towards becoming debt free. Maybe when I pay them off I’ll get it. Then it hit me that I won’t have my loans paid off until I’m in my 40s, even at the rate I’m going (making double payments every month).
Tattoo was finished yesterday. I could have paid off one of my loans with what it cost, but fuck it’s absolutely beautiful. The artist is a painter who tattoos and it legit looks like a painting on my skin.
YES. If you’re gonna spend a lot on a tattoo, absolutely pay more for quality. Seeing a poorly done tattoo just makes me sad. I think you’ll have that ugly thing on your skin for the rest of your life. A good tattoo is always worth it.
It’s always a balancing act.
I’m being careful. Careful with my health, and careful with my money. Because, I don’t want to be a burden to my son, and I want to leave him my house, when I die. It’s probably the only way he’ll become a homeowner, the way things are now.
I’d love to blow a big chunk of money traveling, but I have priorities, and I can’t afford both.
So, yeah, I could, but I won’t.
That bitofarambler guy suggests TEFL cert, you can teach part time, live extremely affordably, travel, and have money left over. That’s very admirable and unselfish of you. I appreciate that.
You could do both if you travel cheaply. Exploring keeps you healthy, consider it medicine that you need.
Its really my thing
my entire life. at this point, I’m literally banking on it.
I try to live by this philosophy the best I can. I saw it happen to one of my former coworkers. Found out he had a brain tumor around the time he was planning on retiring and was dead within a few months. I visited with his widow after. He was well liked, did well for himself and had a comfortable life, but didn’t make it to retirement. I’m sure plenty of people had similar stories during Covid. Or traffic accidents, sudden health problems, shootings, just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Any of us can go at any time no matter how well we’ve planned things out. Do the things while you can and while you are in good enough shape to enjoy them.
My grandfather was pretty much done until he was suddenly dying. Two years before retirement. He and my grandmother barely got to do any of the things they had talked about and planned over the years.
Don’t wait for retirement.
All the time. Highly rewarding. Its just normal behaviour now and something pursued.
At a young age, I made it my goal to die with as few regrets as possible; this is succeeding in life. I’m not old, but already have no fear of death.
Both doing and not doing are risks. Not doing has far worse consequences.
When I was told I was gonna die of cancer in 2 years. Lots of burgers, fries, and beer.
