Congratulations!
The entire *switch* is a mind-thingi. We all have been conditioned by the powers in charge to consume, and to accept that consumption is just the "normal" thing to do. Our business is located in the poor part of town, with many Hispanics who work minimum wage jobs and live with x people in a 2 or 3 bedroom house. Many of those drive brand new cars, some of them really pimpin' with big wheels, etc. That gives them a feeling of success, and a few decades ago even I would have assumed that they are successful in what they are doing.
Now, however, I feel sorry for them. I wish I could take them out of their car and slap 'em left and right to make 'em wake up and see the light. But I can't. The overwhelming majority of people in this country and other industrialized nations have accepted a false reality, and since they are surrounded by like-minded people, they will never realize the alternative, the way out of the rat race. It's sad, indeed.
But since you are on the right path now, there's no turning back. You are young enough to scoot yourself into financial independence, and isn't that the greatest present once can get?
Regarding HBO Now, kill it. Buy a Roku box and watch more TV than you can possibly digest, for free. That's right. Free. I paid over $20K in the past 10 years for DirecTV, and what I got in return wasn't worth 10% of it. Here, too, I assumed that this is what everybody has, the "normal."