Retirement ≠ Freedom.
Retirement simply means stepping away from your job, office, or business.
Freedom is different.
Freedom is having enough financial security and flexibility to decide how, where, and with whom you spend your time.
I don’t think I ever want to truly “retire.”
I want to keep working on things I genuinely enjoy — especially creating content around personal finance, investing and wealth creation.
But I do want to retire from the office hustle by 2030.
My dream?
A peaceful village somewhere in Uttarakhand or Himachal Pradesh.
Financially secure.
All the necessary backups in place.
No unnecessary hustle.
Just me, my laptop, my family and the mountains. 🏔️
That, for me, is Freedom. ❤️
Advice to myself: It is very easy to feel left out right now of one stock/sector or the other in the market. Twitter click bait amplifies the FOMO. Everyone seems to be making 2-4% daily and making new highs daily. Everyone seems to be owning only CDMO and Engineering stocks. Believe me most of these people had solar and defence last year. Less we worry of such people better. Only way to remain clear head is just keep following the process. Keep the head down and keep working. Results will follow. They have for us in last 18 years now. Just keep your balance and don’t change styles significantly due to FOMO.
THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY. BUT POLITICS ENSURES ONLY ONE IS TOLD. BUT THIS YOUNG WOMAN DEMANDS TO BE HEARD.
"My father was almost lynched to death. He suffered head injuries. He was dragged by a violent mob. His uniform was soaked in blood. But when I opened social media, I was shocked to see my father being portrayed as the villain."
INDEED. They perform one of the most thankless jobs in the country.
A job that demands they put their lives on the line so that law and order holds.
Whatever your politics, no family should have to watch a loved one risk their life in service, only to see them vilified without regard for the facts.
The market doesn’t care how intelligent you are. It rewards those who survive long enough for being right to matter. Leverage kills, eventually.
What a story of Leopold Aschenbrenner. A 24-year-old left OpenAI, wrote a 165-page essay about AI infrastructure, turned it into a hedge fund, grew it from $225 million to $45 billion in under two years, then lost the entire public portfolio in four weeks.