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Close to 10 months of not working...status

 Do I enjoy it? 

Of course!!

I exercise a lot more frequently now, doing more reps for chin up, pull up, leg raises. Clocking more steps and cycling longer distances. 

And I am eating well and sleeping well.

Life has been good to me. 

If you have been working non-stop for 15 years or more, slogging for your money and building up your family, if you can afford to, I stronger suggest taking a break of at least 6 months and do nothing. Just live your life. But make sure you have things lined up, friends to talk to and hang out regularly, as it certainly helps to keep your mind active and not end up rotting away. Trust me, unless you are filthy rich already, this will always feel scary initially. Scared that all the property and equity markets will crash and wipe your assets off the surface of the Earth. Scared that you will lose confidence as a person as your job has almost become your identity and image. 

But don't be. Because it is exactly such perceived fears that will prevent you from experiencing something different. We only live once, and time waits for no one. 

Yes, it's prudent to worry about things so that you can be prepared. But, you can NEVER be 100% covered. So you have to set a threshold on what is considered sufficient readiness and just go forward. What is the worse that can happen? What is the probability of that? it will be non-zero, but it will almost not be high like 20% or more. Just like someone who always worry about getting cancer, and spending all his money on insurance premiums, getting slammed by the premiums, become stressed out of the premiums, and not living your life and not enjoying your moments. It's tragic and I feel I will sure regret such a mentality when I am near end of life. 

I do have possibly of re-entering the workforce soon, but ironically, I am hesitant to forgo my good life in the last 9-10 months. I will miss my leisure morning breakfast, where I take my time to prepare and consume and think about my life and plans for the day. I will miss my random kopi sessions with friends whenever they are free, since I am always free lol. I will miss the opportunity to just change and go for a long walk in the trails, get fresh air, get sun. All these flexibility will be missed if I go back to an office job. 

So the job must be damn attractive to make me give this lifestyle up. Even then, I don't see me working more than 2.5 years before calling it quits on working life and permanently retire and enjoy my remaining runway. I won't be super rich in terms of material things, but I will life a rich life, a life rich with experiences, memories, joys, moments, freedom. 

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