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When Saving Becomes Avoiding Life

I just realized I've been saving money for fifteen years for 'someday' but I have no actual plan for what someday looks like and I'm starting to wonder if I'm just afraid to live now.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Deferred gratification without clear purpose can become a defense mechanism against the vulnerability of wanting specific things.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Saving and the psychology of deferred gratification?”

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