The Drums and Pink Floyd both wrote songs called Money, but only one of them is an actual song.

I reached a personal benchmark with my savings. It took a long time, and it didn’t help that I had to pay out of pocket for a trip to the ER in January. If I hadn’t had to pay for that, I would have reached my goal sooner.

I think that, essentially, I feel comfortable paying 30 dollars for lunch. And in general, I think having money frees you from having some anxiety that comes with being middle aged. It’s a package deal, and it’s impossible to opt out of the add ons.

I didn’t have any anxiety when I was poor and young, because we didn’t have TikTok or something like that. It’s unbelievable to me that someone that’s not from a war ravaged country can be 20 and depressed. Just my experience of course. I think I was pretty lucky getting to be a teen in the 90’s. I just didn’t know how lucky until I got some glaring context. If I was young now in this economy? Would not be drug free right now.