tastes and comforts—your mental ease? What are you hopelessly hooked with? Are you not free? Why can't you chuck it all? Is your misery so important to the world? To you? Do you owe the world a miserable temperament? Must you reflect its ills in yourself? Do you feel you're going to live more than once—that you will have a second chance? It's about time you woke up! Happiness is worth going after—NOW! The problem arises as to HOW. Here is where I have tried to help you. Courage are you lacking in? Will you listen to those who say it can't be done? Will you insist on being tied down? Can't you take a bold step and ACT? NOW? Start your dreams on the basis of WHAT YOU WANT TO GET AWAY FROM! When you start your dreams and pursue them consistently, plans for their fulfillment will evolve. Human nature has some "DO" in it and I think you have some "DO IT" in you, otherwise you wouldn't have bought this book. Take my advice and dream, dream, dream. When you mentally traverse the road to the pinnacle of your dreams you will bring it down to the pathway of achievement. WHY RETIRE YOUNG? I think I have stressed this throughout my book. Why waste your life? It's yours and you're going to live it only once. Why not get all the mileage you want out of it while you can? What this might mean in your particular case depends on your tastes and bent. But whatever it is, as long as they are worthwhile human motives you should not defer their realization until you can no longer enjoy them should you be able to. With advancing age we are able less and less to appreciate many of the physical activities of life through participation. What you can enjoy as an older person is far removed from what you can enjoy now. Don't dream of your old age in the terms of present wants. If you want something now—better try to enjoy it now. There is no reason in the world why you should not retire at 25 instead of 65, if, in so doing, you do not shirk your social obligations—or at least—prove a drag upon society. In my own opinion the world should be filled with happy fun-loving people. Don't permit your life to be so harsh that you are denied happiness now—and in your later years.
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