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876 I’m 67 and I retired last year with $680,000 saved and a paid-off house — and by October I was Googling ‘is this all there is’ at 2am because nobody tells you that financial security and psychological purpose are completely unrelated problems

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Christian Kelly @ Silicon Canals · 03/31/2026 22:15 EDT

I’m 67 and I retired last year with $680,000 saved and a paid-off house — and by October I was Googling ‘is this all there is’ at 2am because nobody tells you that financial security and psychological purpose are completely unrelated problems

After decades of careful saving and finally achieving the retirement dream he'd worked toward his entire life, he found himself Googling "is this all there is" at 2am, discovering that a fat bank account and an empty calendar create their own kind of crisis.

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