Posted by:
Breeze
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Date: March 21, 2021 04:19AM
Congratulations to Eric and everyone!
Being reasonable and frugal really pays off. For me, it is a challenge that I believe in. Yes, cl2, my divorced single mother years were rough, too. Maybe we appreciate life now even more, because of what we went through.
My kids and I have never felt "deprived", though. We could ski, travel to California to see family and friends, go to the University of Utah, and, as adults, my children have good jobs, marriage, children, houses, and have traveled all over the world. (I traveled when I was 16-29 years old.). I was no longer being abused.
There's nothing that I feel I need to do, when I "retire", except enjoy life, the way it is now. I plan to always work, a bit, as I gradually delegate more and more work responsibility away from myself. Travel might be a thing of the past, for me, like going to movies and concerts. Big crowds have always made me uncomfortable. Ha-ha, a mission would be my worst nightmare--a single Mormon woman usually is assigned tedious "work-mission" tasks, such as cooking, cleaning, grunt-work, and, if she's very lucky, secretarial stuff that the missionaries don't want to do. Being locked away from my family and friends, the lack of freedom, and being told what to do would depress me.
I donate to various causes, wherever my heart leads me, and I consider giving to be a special privilege that I earned by leaving church. Giving to others makes me happy, now that I'm not being coerced into giving more that I ever could afford, and giving blindly. There are lots of ways to help, without having to mix with people, in person.
LOL--maybe quarantine is easier for us introverts. Retirement is easier for introverts, too, probably.