A profound quote mustachians might like

[Ferrisbueller]

Hi Guys
Saw this today, I thought it profound and mustachian.

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[Spiliph]

Very nice find. Made me read it a few times to soak in all the words.

[Daisy]

Good thoughts. Someone recently started a thread talking about their friend who was dying and had some profound words to say similar to these. So the OP in that thread mentioned they were dying while they were living due to overworking. Sounds like that OP was going to make some changes based on the advice given to them by their dying friend on living to the fullest.

I had a get-together with some friends recently, some which did not know each other. I have a workaholic spendypants friend that was asked by another friend what they did for fun. I felt so bad for her when she paused, thought about it, and answered "well I like to shop"...almost like she couldn't think of anything else. And then she said she works a lot too.

She is a friend of mine, but there are some things we don't have in common. I have always been ambivalent about "shopping"...not that I don't like or didn't like stuff, but would never have listed it as one of my fun activities.

I couldn't get that thought out of my head for a few days because it just felt so pointless to me. But I guess that's why I'll be FIREing and indulging in my hobbies soon while others like that are stuck in the shop-work grind. In a sad way, it helped reaffirm my decisions to FIRE as I don't want to be stuck in that rut.

[Mississippi Mudstache]

I have a good friend who recently announced that he was retiring this year. He will be 65. His wife posted on Facebook that in the 45 years that he has been working, he has only once taken off 2 weeks at a time, since catching up was "too stressful" when he came back to work. He's a great guy, but I could see the work wearing down his health and his personality month by month in the time that I knew him. I just hope there's still something left of him by the time he breaks free.

[tracylayton]

Excellent quote...thanks for sharing!

[Louis the Cat]

I have a good friend who recently announced that he was retiring this year. He will be 65. His wife posted on Facebook that in the 45 years that he has been working, he has only once taken off 2 weeks at a time, since catching up was "too stressful" when he came back to work. He's a great guy, but I could see the work wearing down his health and his personality month by month in the time that I knew him. I just hope there's still something left of him by the time he breaks free.

This is my father in law in spades. In the 12 years that I've been dating/married to his son, the only time I've ever seen him not working is the couple of months between jobs when he got laid off. That's the only time I've ever seen him genuinely happy and that was about 10 years ago. In the last couple of years, he's gotten to where I almost don't recognize him and he treats his SAHM wife terribly because now all she has to do is take care of him and he takes it for granted. I fear for their marriage when he does finally retire, probably in the next 2-5 years. They've amassed a medium sized fortune but at what cost. For context, they are of the spend a lot, make so much more it doesn't matter school of personal finance. It works for them but it has them making what look to my DH and I like laughably extravagant decisions. It also damn near ruined DH financially because they never talked about where the money came from so when we were first married, he had no idea that we couldn't live the way he was used to on $25k per year. (I came from the opposite end of the spectrum where we didn't talk about money because there wasn't any to talk about. Turns out, as my parents started making more and more, they were savings like squirrels before a blizzard, I just didn't know it. I don't recommend that as a family strategy either.) We've both learned a lot about who we don't want to be looking at his parents and that's definitely been a motivator in lots of life decisions, including a cross country move 4 years ago, DH staying with a job where he was underpaid because he got oodles of vacation time (now he's paid at market rate and still has the vacation time), and squeezing out every last vacation day every year.

[Write Thyme]

Great quote. Thank you for sharing.

The other day I was reading a thread in a mommy forum. The moms were all saying they had to schedule time on the calender in order to see their husband because they are both so busy with working, cleaning the house, cooking, and raising young kids...who wants to live like that? It makes me sad.

[Josiecat]

Don't they see their husbands every night in bed? 

[Write Thyme]

Don't they see their husbands every night in bed?

I can't speak for them, but for me, my husband works different shifts so we don't.