Just wanted to share… I have grown up all my life with “get a career, save money, and contribute to your retirement. Then when you are 65 or so you can retire! That was good until 2015 when I had an aortic dissection and emergency surgery to get a graft put it. Then another surgery over a year ago to replace my damaged aortic valve.

I am not reveling this to make people feel sorry for me. My life in many ways is much better now. I say this because it negatively affects my view on retirement and saving money. My life is now segmented into future valve replacements. I no longer have the comfort of an apparent long life. I am not sure now. So now all the years of saving for retirement with what the world told me seems a little hollow. I feel really cheated. The dollar has been manipulated into making me work my butt off. All for the payoff of “maybe” having enough from essentially playing the stock market (401k).

That leaves me with what brought me to here and nostr. Bitcoin caught my attention a few months ago. After a deep dive research period, I finally invested. I am too new to really know if it will benefit my family and I. However, it gives me some hope that my hard earned money may not evaporate before I retire. I am not fully trapped in the system.

Just my 2 cents/sats. Cheers!

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