Opinion: So much of retirement planning is wishful thinking — what I’ve learned after 3 years of actually being retired

Opinion: So much of retirement planning is wishful thinking — what I’ve learned after 3 years of actually being retired

It ended up being one of the most read things I’ve ever written, viewed by several hundred thousand people. After seeing the impact that had, I assumed I would share my thoughts and lessons in a recurring annual blog post.

Year 2: Nearly 2 years into early retirement, here’s all that I’ve gotten wrong :
Well, 2020 has been quite a year. So here is what I’ve learned…
Plans are worthless but…

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If I do something wrong at least let me know so I don’t make the same mistake twice.

• You didn’t tell me. All you do is leave me.

Here I am still thinking about what mistake I made.

Is it that easy for you to let me go?

Originally posted by chicaplacebo

Usually my mother and sister are like hawks with my eating and they will usually notice if something is off, but I haven’t eaten anything for two days and they haven’t said a thing.

Unfortunately I’m meeting with a friend tomorrow and it’s always when I’m with her that I break and eat way too much so I’m really hoping for self control tomorrow with her. She eats so much and yet is one of the skinniest people I’ve ever seen. how!?! Tomorrow is going to be bad, I just know it.

Bebo, apuro desperdicios de mi vida,

me recojo en la templanza de la tregua que me da

la anestesia del recuerdo.

Sentirse sólo y a la ves perdido, tan lleno de pensamientos.

-Quasimodo-

have we tried simply telling the coronavirus to knock it off

Sometimes i think i have an eating disorder. And to some extent i think i do. Ugh. This pandemic has me in my head so much

So, a fire needs 3 things: fuel, heat, and oxygen. That being said, do we think that people with fire quirks, like Dabi and Endeavor, can produce their fires in a vacuum? Like, is their fire fully self-generated, meaning the fire is pulling the oxygen, heat, and fuel from their bodies, or is the fire using components from the surroundings? What part of “fire” are fire quirk users providing – heat, fuel, or oxygen? 

TLDR: How to element quirks work?????

Just thinking to myself. Am I the only one who would pick listening to sexy audios over watching porn??

Chaos

Mutualism. One of the imperative phenomenons that maintain the homeostatic nature of life. They say, the universe is a wonderfully orchestrated whirlpool of chaos. Space in time, chaos within chaos, but chaos co-existing. We should be like the universe. Fucked up as we are, pieces of faultous shits, but let us allow ourselves to live a happy life in peace. Chaos should not collide with chaos — it should co-exist.

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woke up a bit late

introspective mind of young

today is and was

January 16th 2021

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You don’t cross my mind, you live there.

lately i’ve been wandering around through the depts of my mind a lot more than usual

Pensarte y saber que tú no me piensas.

I’ve always loved music composed by Dodie, but this song is so much.

It’s the perfect definition of what I experience in my relations, of knowing it’s a “me thing” and how it contributes to building up anxiety and problems “neither of us need”.

She sings “when you go quiet I hate myself” and that’s it.

That’s the thing.

Even if I know it’s not necessarily about me, when people go quiet I dread it, I immediately think I did something wrong or - even worse - “something’s wrong with me”. And I always felt like nobody really got that so listening to this song does things to my psyche. Mostly very good things.

Thank you for putting all this into words and music, dodie 🌈🌻

A word that doesn’t fit,

Couldn’t be a goal or action,

Just s drawing description.

Still I want to spiral more,

Let my thoughts run wild,

See just where they’ll go,

And bring myself back again.

Spirals, labyrinths, flowing shapes,

Space to take mental breaks.

Or perhaps just to spin.

Just to dance and twirl

Make room somewhere again,

For movement and stretching.

I guess I’ve been trying,

I Went in Seeking Clarity

I Went in Seeking Clarity

“I stopped by the bar at 3 A.M.To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friendAnd I woke up with a headache like my head against a boardTwice as cloudy as I’d been the night beforeAnd I went in seeking clarity” — Lyrics from The Indigo Girls: Closer to Fine

If you think programming is cognitively difficult, try parallel programming. It is generally harder to design, to code, and to debug than…

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