About three years ago, my assets reached ten million. I considered myself to have achieved financial freedom. I want to clarify that the financial freedom mentioned here is not the wealthy lifestyle that many people envision. For me, financial freedom is more like a Safety Net, ensuring basic needs and daily life necessities, rather than living a luxurious life at will. If this disappoints you, I apologize.
After my assets reached ten million, I resigned from my job. In fact, that job had a decent salary, and after working there for a long time, I was quite skilled at it; it was a position that many people aspired to. The reason I resigned was that life is short, and this position no longer allowed me to continue growing. Of course, there were also some internal company factors. When I resigned from the company, I did not have a very specific plan. But the vague idea in my mind was to live a life I liked, rather than wasting my precious time every day on boring and mentally exhausting tasks, becoming a better version of myself, having opportunities to learn, and hoping to start a business with partners I liked, instead of forcing myself to deal with people I disliked every day, feeling depressed and wasting my life.
Some may ask, why work hard and study after achieving financial freedom? Personally, I believe that financial freedom
can indeed allow one to sleep in every day after quitting their job, or even stay in bed after waking up, doing nothing at all. Of course, if one doesn't mind the boredom and the lack of meaning in life, they could do absolutely nothing.
However, I do not like this boring and lazy retirement mentality. A week is fine, but after a week, I start to feel bored and want to do something. I hope to start anew, considering myself 25 years old again, with everything being fresh, and there are so many opportunities outside. I plan to arrange things well and embark on a new journey in life.
At this moment, I am living the life I want. In the past nearly three years, there has been joy and happiness.