All I ever desired in life was to be comfortable in life and the same in retirement.
The amount of money is not relevant as ones definition of what is comfortable for them may be different from others.
As long as one is happy in their life it doesn’t matter how much money you possess.
If one decides to be an over achiever with putting on fronts like a home you can barely afford to appear “rich”, your not going to be comfortable in your lifestyle because you can’t enjoy the other fruits of life like having a fluid cash flow for travel, helping kids in an emergency, covering your own emergencies, and so on.
There are a lot of millionaires out there that are financially poor.
I've never met Dennis but I've read many of his posts and have had some PMs going back and forth and if i can have nearly as much as this man has and do the things he does in retirement i will be perfectly content with how my life turned out. While I don't see anything but a very small glimps of his life through the OSA lens i know I'd be happy to have is lifestyle when i retire. I'm a huge beliver in passing my wealth on to the next generation, my son, and that is what i intend to do.