> How long until you are wealthy?

In many respects, I became wealthy just under 5 years ago with my lung cancer surgery. Many would see my definition of wealth a little bit odd, and would also see my reasoning half assed backward. You see until then I pretty much had a YOLO, (you only live once), kind of life. I tried lots and lots of things, life was all about having experiences, and I do not regret that for one single moment. 

A side effect of that is a lack of building monetary wealth. I had several illness that at times threatened my financial well being, such as inability to make it to work on a regular basis, and living basically on less than half pay for 18 months. It was a long road to recovery back then, but I had an understanding boss and he kept his boss from firing me. I made it back full time about two months after the ultimatum of full time or medical retirement.

Even back then I never really took the lesson of lack of monetary wealth serious, or the need to learn to build for the future. Experience was still the whole purpose of life, not money, tomorrow would take care of its self attitude. 

Hive, especially these last two years has shown me that building wealth does not need to be the end all of wealth, it is how you get there that is important. Tomorrow monetary wise has taken care of the needs, but life, (yes even in retirement), has wants and desires also. So while the needs are met, those wants and desires are pretty lacking.

YOLO life is about the wants and desires, and does not provide for the needs of retirement at all, so people need to learn to build a little wealth, your post provide some guidance and thoughts about the concept of YOLO and wealth building at the same time. You do not tell people in so much as you try to teach people.