How to Tell If You’re Rich

[Ben]

Let me share with you my side of it. retirement and financially free is over rated ! once you get there you will know what i am talking about.I am now in this category and recently I have started a biz to kill some of my time and to network, not so much as for the money. 2 problems you will have to address. one is lonely as suddenly you don't have working friends and the other you would have lost the purpose of life now that you don't have to chase that pot of gold. there is so much golf that you can play, so much places that you can visit before you are weary of travelling(believe me I have travel a lot to many far flung places) and there is so much you can eat. i have tried eating restaurant food for 6 mths and finally decided that i am not going to die eating. so now my favorite food is teochew porridge and the occasional restaurant food.

The “have” and “have-not” will always have different views on financial freedom. I agree with everything you said. I belong to the “have-not” group and am working hard to achieve your status. To people like me, yours is a good problem to have. I think the fundamental difference between one who have achieved financial freedom and one who have not is the former has a CHOICE. You can choose to go back to working class if you like, and can choose to stay away if you like. But the one who have not achieved financial freedom will not have this liberty. Agree?

They are more people in this forum that have achieved financial freedom than I expect. Power!