Glad you have a 26 year old Lexus. In the previous post you used that as a status symbol. But wait if you are unemployed why are you headed to the Caribbean...via first class?
Things don’t add up. Sorry.
OK, I'll be a little more blunt.
I can describe my life and my status or class in ways that make me look either high class or low class. Both paragraphs in my previous post are completely true and they're both about me, yet the first paragraph makes me sound like a loser and the second paragraph makes me sound successful.
Other people will categorize me into a certain class based on what I choose to reveal, but if they do that on very little data then they miss a lot of who I am. If they do that about people in general then they're missing a lot about a lot of people.
People are fascinating, complex people, and most who reach middle age have a lot of history and texture and complexity.
One such person was a friend of mine from childhood. He lived down the street from me and was my same age. He was wicked smart, good looking, and athletic, as well as friendly and outgoing. He ended up going to college on a baseball scholarship. He was married twice and had several sons. He ended up working in construction, mostly concrete work. I lost track of him until about a year ago, when we met over drinks - he wanted my advice on a financial matter, which I was honored to give.
He died a few months ago, never making it to 50. When I die I expect perhaps five people to notice; when he died there were hundreds and hundreds of people posting about him on Facebook (including me).
I'm going to the Caribbean to help blow my dough and as an acknowledgement to my childhood friend that life is sometimes too short.
I'm unemployed in the sense that I don't have a job. As noted above, I retired at 46 and currently have just under a 1.5% net WR.
It is possible that things are not adding up for you because you are drawing straightforward conclusions from too little information. Sometimes those kinds of conclusions can be way off: first, because the little information provided may be selectively good or bad; and second, because some correct conclusions are unusual and not straightforward.
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ETA: I'm not sure why you're apologizing. That might be a way for you to say you don't believe me. That's OK by me; I don't need anyone to believe me (although I've been on this board for 13 years so I have a long track record for anyone to evaluate). But I think you might be missing out on some interesting experiences by categorizing people and dismissing them rather than trying to understand, and although you didn't ask for my help I thought I'd try offering it anyway. Good luck.
No worries all points of views are wonderful
