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Selected life timeline 2023—2026

He could afford an ambitious bucket list. He learned to leave days empty.

u/jayybonelie left work at 45 with plenty of interests still ahead. Reading, running, making things and family life gave retirement momentum. The later update turns away from another optimization project: quiet, unplanned time and less social media had become part of the point.

Finances
Net worth at retirement2023 · Personal
Not established

Later reported wealth is not a departure balance; no exact starting number established.

Source
Posts2
2025
Post 01

Trying matters more than collecting achievements

“I embrace that at some I will fail, but for me, its more important to try than to always succeed.”

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Life at the time

  • Read, ran, grew fruit and learned new skills.
  • Kept a longer list of ambitions, many still ahead rather than completed.

How it felt

  • Felt able to attempt things without needing every attempt to succeed. “Failure is always an option”
  • Valued trying more than maintaining a perfect record of achievements. “its more important to try than to always succeed.”
CuriosityOutdoorsCreativity
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Notes

Publication date at available precision. Retirement milestones follow the author’s own count; a missing milestone is not inferred.

Bucket list, completed reading and running, and approach to failure.

Editorial summaries with short, attributed quotations. The original contains the full story.

2026Year 3
Post 02

The empty space becomes worth protecting

“Deleting social media: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc has freed up so much cognitive cycles and reduced my anxiety while increasing my satisfaction with life.”

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Life at the time

  • Allowed more quiet, unplanned time alongside exercise.
  • Reduced social media use.

How it felt

  • Was becoming more comfortable slowing down without filling every hour. “Its okay to slow down and have lots of quiet unplanned time.”
  • Felt that leaving social platforms returned time and attention. “I feel like I regained my power and so much more time.”
Slowing downFreedomFamily
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Notes

Publication date. Three years is a rounded milestone from the author’s 1,111-day title; it is not used to infer an exact departure date.

Quiet days, exercise and deleting social media.

Editorial summaries with short, attributed quotations. The original contains the full story.

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Research

Last checked Sep 2026. The accounts are self-reported. This timeline follows selected accounts, including recollections where labeled; it is not a complete archive.

  • The bucket list mixes completed activities with aspirations; only explicitly completed items are presented as outcomes. The later 1,111-day title does not establish an exact departure date, so only the year is recorded.
  • This is a selection of reviewed updates, not a complete account history. No later life outcome is inferred from the absence of another indexed post.

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