“Giving up the pursuit of retirement has a great many practical and psychological advantages. But it also has an added spiritual bonus: by eliminating the finish line, life stops being a race. With all of us on our own path, there’s no way your progress can be compared to anyone else’s. No one–not your parents, your friends or Money magazine–can look at your life and say you’re not as far along as you should be. More important, you can stop measuring yourself against an arbitrary standard and feeling inadequate for not meeting the grade. You’re on your own unique self-charted journey. Where it ends only God knows, so until then all you can do is keep rowing.” Stephen Pollan from Die Broke
