When I was in my early 20’s I gave up on the idea of retirement. I was watching the environment being ruined and realized my retirement was going to be awful and stressful. I decided then to live for the moment so I could be happy.

I travelled many countries, live abroad for a number of years, met many different people, tried many different things, learned many things, slowed down to enjoy the little things and even got an HR manager fired to top off my list of personal accomplishments.

I don’t want to grow old and lately I’ve seen how awful it is to slowly die in a body you are losing control over. Too many times.

I’ve already made peace with my own death whenever it comes. My retirement plan now is extreme sports. If I’m going out, I’m doing it living in the moment.

From my perspective, it’s strange to see so many people fight to live long, to live forever or to create a legacy that persists beyond their death. Eveyone dies and everything will be forgotten. That should be something beautiful but instead it fills people with fear.