Your tagline says it all - 'Design and create your ideal life, tomorrow isn't promised' - galenkp
It encapsulates this post in it's entirety.
To live your life - not a life
Freedom isn't free when you figure out how hard you have to work for it, and most of the value of your labor goes toward the enrichment of another person or entity.
I see a great many folks disenfranchised with the current world we live in, and in that grand reckoning comes the decision to live a more focused, intentional life. And because you go about it in a good way, with planning and number crunching, I have no doubt you will achieve your goals and be deeply and authentically happy. You've worked hard for it, now go get it lol
I've given a lot in my life, put myself out there for others, my life on hold and have bled financially for others so I think it's time I focus on me. That's not to say I've not had a good life because I have, but I'm not willing to exchange more of it to amass more money I don't really need; the life part of life is more important.
I'm currently plotting things out, working out where I want to be and when, what stage if life, and what each stage looks like from a happiness perspective and logistically; it's not easy but it's quite an enjoyable process and the more I look at it the better it will be. I'm planning to wander (Australia is a big country) around a lot for extended periods (months and months) and maybe longer than that. I've seen much of the country but there's always more to see and experience. I'll have a home base, but won't be there much. Seems like the ideal thing for a bloke like me.
It sounds truly exciting...Hopefully you'll be practicing some shit photography so we can live vicariously through you lol
I'm thinking you could travel around your country for a lifetime and not see it all. You'll be a treasure hunter, not in the traditional sense of monetary value, but in the quest for rich experiences and exquisite memories. Tales of a life well lived
It's a big country and with each season places become so different meaning I could go back over and over to the same places to experience them differently, the Victorian high country for instance, each season brings a vastly different experience from snow in winter, beautiful spring and autumn and baking hot summers.
There'll be heaps of shit photography when I'm out there, lods of good stuff Hive will never see as well because I'm planning to really delve into photography and finally learn what it's all about, just one of the things I want to do. And on the treasure hunting...I'm planning around doing some gold prospecting, looking at a Minelab detector currently. 🤐
I look forward to reading about it...and seeing those pictures as well! That detector will come in handy any place you go.
I'm hoping to find a gold nugget the same size as my brain! Oh hang on, I have a brain the size of a green pea so that won't work well financially.
Some peas are bigger than others lol
Lol...yep that's how I like to think of it.