text:  then I lived a great retirement. I mean, that was what the priority was all along. I didn't set out at the age of 25 to start saving money so I could give it to my kids someday. I set out at the age of 25 to save enough money so I didn't have to do this crappy job anymore. Yeah, absolutely. And understanding that is crucial. And I think going back to the cake analogy, people are so scared to spend or see that principle, that corpus go down, that they really don't end up using this money in the way that they intended to.