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"Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden
That's bursting into life"
Chasing Cars, Snow Patrol
People around me often think I'm being ridiculous that I want to get rich quick and retire early so that I can enjoy my younger years. That I am pessimistic and love using extreme examples. But really, am I being crazy? What if I back it up with some statistics?
While MJ loves analogy, I love statistics. Stats simply don't lie.
The graph is pretty self-explanatory, but here's my interpretation.
Most of us are quite aware of life expectancy, that in the developed world most of us are expected to live till our 80s. So not too bad, people still get 20 odd years after retirement.
Really?
But what's often missed out of the picture is disability-free life expectancy (DFLE), as shown in the graph.
As the title says, it is a graph showing life expectancy and disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) of people born in England from 1999-2003. If you happened to be born during that time in the most privileged neighbourhood, you get your pension at the age of 68. And guess what, on average you have 15 years more to live, but only 2 years of disability-free years left! What if you happened to be born in the average neighbourhood? Your disability-free life expectancy is actually lower than your pension age!
Now I know there's social mobility, that people can better their life by doing the right things towards the right direction.
And there are many other factors that can affect your health outcomes.
What I'm trying to say is, people often overestimate the number of healthy years they have got ahead of them, that they squandered their time away doing things they don't enjoy doing and only realizing when it's too late.
Or perhaps you prefer real life examples to cold hard statistics.
I've seen a doctor demented and crippled with Alzheimer’s disease under the age of 50!
Do you know, while Mohamed Ali and Michael J Fox are the most well known people to suffer from Parkinson’s Disease, the disease tends to affect professionals such as engineers and accountants more than any other groups in the population? The very people who think after years of slowlane hard work, they can finally retire and enjoy their lives.
Or I'm sure you have seen examples around you.
I am not sure about you - I'm dead scared of slowlane mediocrity. I have dreams, and I want to achieve most if not all of them before I am disabled or even dead.
Before we get too old
Show me a garden
That's bursting into life"
Chasing Cars, Snow Patrol
People around me often think I'm being ridiculous that I want to get rich quick and retire early so that I can enjoy my younger years. That I am pessimistic and love using extreme examples. But really, am I being crazy? What if I back it up with some statistics?
While MJ loves analogy, I love statistics. Stats simply don't lie.
The graph is pretty self-explanatory, but here's my interpretation.
Most of us are quite aware of life expectancy, that in the developed world most of us are expected to live till our 80s. So not too bad, people still get 20 odd years after retirement.
Really?
But what's often missed out of the picture is disability-free life expectancy (DFLE), as shown in the graph.
As the title says, it is a graph showing life expectancy and disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) of people born in England from 1999-2003. If you happened to be born during that time in the most privileged neighbourhood, you get your pension at the age of 68. And guess what, on average you have 15 years more to live, but only 2 years of disability-free years left! What if you happened to be born in the average neighbourhood? Your disability-free life expectancy is actually lower than your pension age!
Now I know there's social mobility, that people can better their life by doing the right things towards the right direction.
And there are many other factors that can affect your health outcomes.
What I'm trying to say is, people often overestimate the number of healthy years they have got ahead of them, that they squandered their time away doing things they don't enjoy doing and only realizing when it's too late.
Or perhaps you prefer real life examples to cold hard statistics.
I've seen a doctor demented and crippled with Alzheimer’s disease under the age of 50!
Do you know, while Mohamed Ali and Michael J Fox are the most well known people to suffer from Parkinson’s Disease, the disease tends to affect professionals such as engineers and accountants more than any other groups in the population? The very people who think after years of slowlane hard work, they can finally retire and enjoy their lives.
Or I'm sure you have seen examples around you.
I am not sure about you - I'm dead scared of slowlane mediocrity. I have dreams, and I want to achieve most if not all of them before I am disabled or even dead.
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