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.

I was a teacher... and that really worked out poorly. So I enrolled in law school. Which doesn't pay anything. So I just had to give up my apartment and move back home, which makes me feel like a miserable failure. Because being self sufficient was the only real success I felt I had in life. For the past few days, when I'm not at school or doing reading for school, I've basically either been crying or sleeping.

Oh, that's something I didn't know. But yeah, there's still a chance I find out bad news about my heart, but I think that chance is fairly slim, at least based on what I've been told thus far.

But here's an interesting thing that happened... About midway through my event monitoring trial I missed a phone call from the cardiologist one night at about 9:30 pm. I didn't notice the missed call until the next morning while at work. They tried calling again while I was in the middle of a fairly important conference call with a client, so I had just dismissed the call, figuring it could wait.

I immediately noticed the missed call from the night before, as well as the notification that I had a new voicemail. I tabbed over and read the transcribed version of the voicemail and it said something to the affect of "Hi, this is so-and-so calling from the cardiology office, and it's very important that you call us back." I'm trying to keep myself composed because at the same time I'm holding a conversation with a client, but my mind was racing and all I could think was that the monitor must have recorded some alarming patterns with my heart. Why else would they call me so late at night when I don't even think they stay open that late?

I remember the client I was speaking with was talking a lot, and I was waiting for a good moment to get a word in and tell him I need to call him back. I did, and then I raced outside to find someplace quiet where I could have what could potentially be a life-changing conversation.

I call them back and after they verify who they are speaking with, they then proceed to ask me if I lost consciousness the night before.

"What!? No! When did this happen?" Clearly the EKG monitor must have recorded patterns that lead them to this conclusion, I assumed.

"Did you faint or pass out?"

"I don't think so, but maybe during my sleep? What time was this recorded?"

I remember my boss's wife had just arrived at the office with her kids and was walking inside, and I had done my best to say hello without making it obvious that I was getting bad news...

But I wasn't getting bad news. As it turns out, a symptom of "syncope" was submitted via the heart monitor... meaning that while in my pocket, the touch panel must have activated and conveniently selected "syncope" the previous evening. I'd submitted many symptoms over the previous couple of weeks, but never that one. Not intentionally. That specific symptom must be a red flag and it alerts someone to make contact with the individual to make sure they are okay.

So yeah, just a false alarm.

Sorry, that could have been a one paragraph story lol

You actually all know way too much about me so I'm having a hard time to come up with something.

What you probably don't know is that I'm currently in the process of quitting my job and starting a new job this year. It's a big step in both salary and challenge so I'm hoping I'm doing the right thing.

While I can sense sarcasm from miles away, it's more that while I enjoy life (and I do) I feel I could be doing more. I want to do more, just don't.

Also, I hate lemon, disgusting.

Couldn't happen to me, I hate coffee with a passion.

Which is why I was drinking coke by an average of 2 liters a day until about 2 years ago. And once I stopped, I slept about 18 hours straight, with all the Coffeine being out of my system.

Damn that’s a lot of coke, I hope you stopped for good.

I have the same problem. I've tried to quit drinking coke so many times