We live our lives very consciously, why, because we are confronted with death at an early age.
My nephew, a year younger, died at the age of 21, cancer.
My father, grandfather and great-grandfather all died around the age of sixty, heart attack.
With that experience, we started to look at life differently.
I couldn't work well with my brain, but I could work with my hands.
I discovered by doing everything myself that you could spare/deserve a lot of money.
At the age of twenty, we built our own house completely, including all the furniture, kitchen, you name it.
At that time, we also bought a sunken fiberglass boat and completely refurbished it.
At the age of thirty, when my wife was 26 years old, we decided to build our own boat, the boat we still sail today, thirty-two years later.
When the boat was finished, three years later, we wanted to travel.
We were able to arrange with our employer to go on holiday for 9 to 12 weeks, which we did until our retirement.
At the age of forty-three, I started a four-day work week, also until my retirement.
I retired at the age of sixty, seven and a half years earlier than planned, my wife had already quit earlier.
Moral of the story, we enjoyed our freedom and traveled trips that are reserved for most people when they retire, if you make it.
No one can take this away from us, don't put anything off until tomorrow, Carpe diem!
WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A WAY!!!
Greeting,
Pascal in Sigrid.
