“I know where I’m going. Where I’ve always been going. Home. The long way around.”*
If you pay attention to the FIRE** blogging community for more than, oh, I don’t know, ten seconds, you know that there are a whole lot of people who are bent on retiring well before standard retirement age. Many of them want to retire before 40. Some are even aiming for before age 30.
But is that the best way for everyone? Do I need to make that my highest priority, giving up everything else to get there as quickly as I can?
Of course I don’t.
And so, apparently, I’ve become part of the Slow FI movement, if that’s a thing.
Or have I?