Comment on Living to 120 is becoming an imaginable prospect

onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• frickineh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No shit. Depending on how things are going in the next 10-15, I might retire way early, do as much bucketlist type stuff as possible until the money runs out, and then check out early. I probably have enough to live for 5 or 10 years if I move somewhere with a lower cost of living, and better that than working until I’m 75 while the world burns.

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  • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My retirement plan is a bullet

    My mantra.

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  • kicksystem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Perhaps you are half joking or not, but I used to think like this in my younger years. I spent a heck of a lot of time in my 20s and 30s doing all the bucket list stuff. Bunch of sex, drugs, traveling, wild adventures, starting a company, etc. Having gone through that I can tell you that I am much happier now than I was when I thought all those bucket list items were going to make me happy. Sure, they felt good and some were amazing, but it wears off and before you know it you’re chasing the next thing again.

    A while ago I came across a nice, although a somewhat simplistic, equation that said that happiness equals the number of things you have divided by the number of things you want. I find that wanting less is a much easier route to increase that metric than getting more. Easier said than done though, but I found that silent meditation retreats do the trick for me.

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    • frickineh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m 39, and my bucket list mostly involves traveling to historical sites and trying lots of different food, so I don’t think we’re particularly comparable.

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      • kicksystem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        We don’t need to be compatible for the point to stand

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