I learned from experience! 3 reasons why ‘early retirement’ is actually not fun.

The phrase "early retirement" that everyone often talks about.
I actually had a period where I dipped one foot into it.

I started earning quite a bit, and my income sources increased, so I tried quitting my job.
I thought living a relaxed life wouldn't be bad, and I was just lounging around at home.

Then, I quickly experienced three changes.
This time, these three changes are the reasons why I think early retirement might not be so good.

Frankly, I think you'll die early.
If anyone is considering early retirement, please think about it for a moment.

After early retirement, my relationships became distant, and meeting friends became difficult.

I felt like I was made to realize that life is really about human relationships.
Everyone is working hard and vibrantly, aren't they?
And in that context, you invite them out for a drink or something.

Then, the conversation turns to what you want to do next or work-related topics.
As time passes, you start to lose touch with their feelings.
When it comes to hanging out, I have free time, so I can generally accommodate others.
But somehow, I started to feel a gap between myself and my friends.

The sense of discomfort, wondering if this was okay, grew strong, and I couldn't possibly think of myself as a "winner."
Instead, I fell into a feeling of being left behind and became restless.
I also started to feel like my own abilities were falling behind those who were working normally.

On top of that, people say 'That's nice,' but I don't feel recognized.
Is it self-display? Or rather, my desire for recognition is not satisfied at all.
It's the same even when I travel.
After early retirement, I feel like I'm in a different world from the people I used to be close with.
Just remembering it makes me feel tormented by a sense of loneliness.

After early retirement, I became overtly anxious about the deterioration of my own abilities.

When something happens and I return to society, I worry if I'll be able to work on the front lines.
Certainly, I may have sold businesses and monetized several ventures in the past.
But I think about it when I'm playing games or watching movies at home.
I wonder if that was just a dream.

I worry if my current self could do the same thing again if asked.
I often start to think, as if it were someone else's business, 'How did I manage to take on so much risk and fight through it back then?'
It's only after reaching a situation where there's no need to take any more risks that I start to have doubts.

I've been thinking, 'Why is this happening?'

I feel like if I'm not contributing to society or to someone, my reason for existence might disappear.
Because, frankly, someone who has early retired is no longer needed by society, in reality.
Being unnecessary to society makes me feel like I've been labeled as humanly unnecessary.
Everyone works every day, and in a sense, they live with a shared consciousness of work, don't they?
That's why they complain, acknowledge differences, and recognize each other's existence.

Not being needed from that perspective means being an unnecessary existence for the majority of society.
I even felt like people around me were telling me to just spend my money quickly and die.

Society is moving at a very fast pace, and if you throw things aside for a bit, you'll quickly be left behind.
If your own abilities don't surpass that, you'll feel like you're being treated as unnecessary.
I started to not understand the world after early retirement, and it made me miserable.

Also, I met people who talked about early retirement in the same way, but we didn't click.
Even if we became friends, what would we even talk about?
It was all talk about girls, or where we hung out, and none of it was fun.
I was hungry for a feeling that would excite me from the bottom of my stomach.

After early retirement, I lost the meaning of life, and instead, stress accumulated and I gained weight.

When it comes to this, gradually, I start to lose the meaning of my own existence.
A person who has struggled to create something suddenly becomes unproductive and turns into nothing. (lol)
Certainly, stress disappeared and life became easier, but what's the point of that?

Is there any meaning in being alive? Or rather, what is the meaning of life?
I entered such a philosophical mode that I probably hadn't thought about before, and I started to feel depressed.

I didn't have to leave the house, so honestly, there was a period of almost a month where I hardly left the house.
I ate what I liked, and I wasn't really fond of exercise to begin with, so I gained a good 10 kilograms.
The person I was dating at the time even told me something like "appearance fraud."
Well, this is a matter of exercising, but somehow, I just didn't feel any vitality within myself.

What I thought was, I'm definitely going to die young.

They say grandfathers quickly get senile after retirement.
Grandpas who keep working are said to stay young.
I think people instantly lose their meaning in life the moment they lose their goals.
I think the heart dies when it stops fluctuating between joy and sorrow, when there's no stimulation, and no ups and downs.
At least I was getting stuck on that path.

Because I can keep doing what I like.
Even things I used to like, I get tired of them, and gradually they become irrelevant.
Even with travel, I've gotten tired of the act itself of going abroad to have new experiences!

Even Disneyland is fun because you go once a year.
Even if it's once a year, if you go every year for 10 years, you'll get tired of it.
If you get tired of all the various joys in life, that's truly the end point of life.

As a result, I poured most of the cash I had into the next business. lol

So, everything was getting frustrating, and I immediately went to meet interesting people.
These are the people who are going to expand various businesses from now on.

I invested most of the cash I had in those people, and I was almost back to zero.
It's not like I was cornered because of it, but it was somehow fun.
Surely, having money and early retirement isn't suited for me.

I reached my limit in about 4 months.

Now I'm doing a lot of fun things, so I'm living with a lot of excitement.
When the topic of marriage came up, I thought, 'Oh, I should have kept a little bit after all.' lol
The challenge of trying to prepare a large amount of cash for that purpose is also fun.

How to use your own mind to succeed in your work and business.
It's fun to think and try so hard that you almost overheat trying to solve a difficult puzzle.
It's precisely when you're pushed to the brink that life becomes exciting and worth living.

Early retirement has its suitable and unsuitable aspects.
I think it's better to consider if you are truly suited for it.
If you're not suited for it, just hearing the words 'early retirement' gives you chills. Lol
Well, even so, I guess that kind of lifestyle is still suited for those who are suited for it.