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Originally Posted by Kunama
My 2cents again: Many people worry too much about wealth in retirement and forget that life is about the journey not the end.
When I was in the AFP I saw many many friends work shift work all their lives, refuse to consider early retirement so they could build up their nest egg and then they retired at 65 and I attended their funeral within 3 yrs. Food for thought?
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I agree that life is the journey, but you may have 30 years of that journey after you have lost the capacity to earn.
I'd rather spend those 30 years with options to live it to the full. It is about balance like anything else, but when you are young, you can jam some money away that will pay off handsomely when you are older, and there are lots more ways to have fun that don't cost much when you're a young bloke
