I m going to consider every year I get in retireme…

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We've all heard the anecdote about the person who retired and died a year or two years later. That anecdote kind of irritates me. I'm not irritated with the people who tell it because they're just telling their story. They don't, you know, they're not intending to make some point or whatever. I'm irritated by how it gets interpreted. It's one of those, and I don't think I'll get this right, but it's like correlation doesn't equal causation situations where it's like, yes, you can correlate the time of death with the date of retirement, but one didn't necessarily cause the other. Now, sometimes, yeah, I guess there are cases where it does, but that's not the point of my post here. Most of the time, that person was probably going to pass when they passed, and they just retired when they did. And for my part, if I, if I died tomorrow, I wouldn't be sitting around salty about how I only, quote unquote, got two years of retirement. I would look at it like I got two amazing years, two more years than 98% of the world ever get. And if I were asked, like, would you like another? I would say yes. When I'm 140 years old, if someone asked, would you like another day? I would say yes. I would keep saying yes, until I was, just too weak to answer the question. That's just who I am. But honestly, I'm, I'm not going to be salty if I don't get 40, 30, 20, whatever years of retirement. Every year of retirement I get is a gift and I'm going to appreciate it.