Loved this read so much, for FIRE [Financial Independence/ Retire Early] it's all about being different, not fitting-in and quit keeping up with the Joneses... if you do what everyone else does, you'll get what they all get... don't expect different outcomes. If you want to live your life on your terms, you got to be and do you. In highschool we're still young, then we "grow-up"... I like to look at it not just as "getting older/ or wiser" but as "levelling-up", like Super Mario we level-up and evolve through the Levels of Life - the better we get at it, the more fun it'll become and the happier we tend to live! Cheers