Dear Mr. Ritz:

Welcome back to your own thread! There is a way to get a notification in your email account if a member tags your name, at least sometimes it works this way. If your name is not tagged, there is no notification.

In your last post, July 17 this year, you wrote: “I have some friends who are few years older than me. Both are very highly paid professionals with over a million in retirement accounts and generous pensions to boot (both of them). They don’t live extravagantly but they feel like THEY cannot afford to retire! I would have retired years ago if I had that kind of money. I guess it’s a matter of perspective.”

Above, you mentioned the movie The Volcano. I watched it or parts of it. I guess your friends, with over a million in retirement accounts and generous pensions to boot, they too wake up every day to The Volcano experience. You think that you wouldn’t, if you had their money. Yet there are people who would look at your financial situation, saying: if I had Mr. Ritz’s finances, I would retire!

It is a matter of perspective- worth looking into it.

anita