Ask HN: How to continue to be gracious about the good fortune of rich friends?

Re:Ask HN: How to continue to be gracious about the good for... by SpelingBeeChamp on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @10:40PM (#29804829)

If you are not doing it now, or making an effort to do it now, don't be surprised when the time comes and you discover that you are not spending your days as you expected.

I retired for most of my twenties and early-thirties. It was all planned, and it ended up being one of the best decisions I have ever made, but it only created opportunity. Retirement doesn't change a person's interests or their motivation. When people receive a windfall of time, they tend to spend that time doing whatever it was they did prior, only more of it. If they watched TV in their free time, now they watch more TV. You get the idea.

My unsolicited advice: do it now.

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Re:Ask HN: How to continue to be gracious about the good for... by noiwillnot on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @12:48AM (#29805621)

I disagree with this. I used to have passion hobbies until I became so time-poor that keeping them would mean cut the little amount of time that I spent with my family, or not being able going out of my apartment for a walk.

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Re:Ask HN: How to continue to be gracious about the good for... by SpelingBeeChamp on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @08:55PM (#29818124)

I am not sure what you are disagreeing with.

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