Money, Family

Daily Meditation 823–6/1/2024

A few weeks (months?) ago, I saw a Reddit post in a finance subreddit. The poster shared an image of their investment portfolio showing over half a million dollars in profits on their various investments.

They posted sharing how they’ve worked overtime, now, for multiple years, plowing as much of this extra cash into investments — stocks, options, gold, Bitcoin. Now, from their years of diligence, there was cumulatively more than a million (maybe it was 2–3m) plus all the profit. It was a sight to behold.

Their entire reasoning was so that they and their spouse could retire a few years earlier and to ensure the kids had whatever education they saw fit.

Well.

After their myriad years of exceptional hard work and hundreds (thousands?) of hours of OT, their spouse filed to divorce them and take the kids, too, citing they were never home for them and only cared about money. In the filing, they wanted half of the money, too.

Many such cases…

Here’s the rub.

Money is essential to your stability. That’s true. Investing is truly important to learn about as young as you are able. Greed is dangerous, but stability and plotting out your future is essential. Set your rudder down as soon as you may, so that you’re on the…