I love living a simple life. Thanks to my minimalist lifestyle, I now own my apartment outright, earn passive income from the rent, and have six figures worth of savings and investments. My ultimate goal is to have enough in the bank so that I can retire early.
But sometimes I feel that goal holds me back from my more extravagant, ambitious dreams.
For example, I've always wanted to live and study abroad, but can't bear the thought of burning through my hard-earned savings to do that.
I also wanted to do some vagabonding, workaway-ing and woof-ing my way through organic farms in Australia - but worry about what that'll do to my career prospects when I return, and how my finances could recover after that.
Then, I wanted to do a Masters in Publishing, but hold myself back because of, yes, the expense and also wonder if it's worth my time - a Masters in Arts doesn't exactly bring you better pay. But my soul seems to want it.
I sometimes feel that I'm two people - one side logical and calculative, forever bound by my sense of responsibility, and another side dreamy, illogical, always chasing after some carrot in the sky.
Simplicity has helped me in so many ways, but I can't seem to bring these two sides of my being into any kind of harmony. Frankly, it's keeping me up at night!
Anyone of you struggle with the same thing? Did you overcome this? what can I do?? Chase after my dreams and to hell with my early retirement goals??
Submitted July 31, 2017 at 01:24AM by mantisq http://ift.tt/2vanOZT
