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Lonely_Dolphin on 28 August 2019
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CrazyGamer2017 said:
Lonely_Dolphin said:

Ah so you basically retired super early at the cost of having more limited life experiences. I don't mind being considered a slave or not, my only concern is being happy, so that plan wouldn't work for me especially since it still requires working. However that is a good plan in general and it's great that it worked out for ya, thanks for sharing it.

Everything has a cost. the idea here is to know which cost you can take and which you can't. While most people I guess can't take the cost of "less limited life experiences" I am one that cannot take the cost of not having time for myself and thus literally having the full 24 hours/day to myself is my personal definition of "successful". I don't have to work, I don't have to be at some place tomorrow, I don't have to do this or do that, I don't have to do anything. I'm literally as free as a human can be. But it comes to a cost yes, like anything else in life.

Most people define their "success" by how much money they have, I however define mine by how independent from the system I am. I'm not saying it's bad to define success thru how much money you have, I'm just saying it's not something for me. Also to me success is a situation in which you come on top of and control. Most people that are financially successful end up being controlled by their greed. What's the difference between me and Warren Buffet? I am super broke compared to him, but he's a slave to his money and social position. I have all the time a human can have to myself whereas he's too busy doing business to really do anything of his time. You could argue he could stop working any time and have all his time to lazy around freely with all his billions of dollars and you'd be right, but the reality is he won't stop working cause he's a slave to always making more money, but why? He's a billionaire, why does he need to make more money? He does not, he simply can't stop doing what he's done all his life. He's a slave to his own success and he's controlled by it whether he admits it or not.

I did say at some point that this isn't for everybody, remember?

Yes everything has cost, I never said otherwise, but here's a thought. Just as you say this Warren Buffet guy (idk who he is) is a slave to money, it could also be said that you're a slave to your idea of freedom. Rather than love and money you desire solitude and unemployment instead, different but still a desire all the same. Nothing wrong with that, but there's also nothing wrong wanting the aforementioned. Your use of the word slave seems to imply that's bad somehow.