I hear ya. I too retired at 55, with no regrets, but I doubt I'll be around in another 20-30 years."Thankfully you'll be dead by then"?
You don't think that you'll be around in 20 to 30 more years? I plan on being around for 40 to 50 more years myself!
I'm retired and my plan is to live long enough so that I'm retired longer than I have worked in my life. I retired when I was 55 and I worked for ~40 years so as long as I live past 95 I'm good! I'm aiming for 105.
Getting personal for a second here, but I'm in my 70's now, but as soon as I hit my 60's, stuff started to go wrong.
Prostate cancer at 61 for starters. I managed to survive that one, so far.
A few years later I suffered rapid severe hearing loss. I'm down to 20% now.
Then had open heart surgery at 65 to repair a bad mitral valve. Made it through that too, but I still get irregular heartbeat consistently. No cure for that.
My wife is also having problems now. She was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier in the year, and is undergoing treatments as I write. Things are looking up for her, so that's the good news.
Goodness knows what comes next, but I'm not looking forward to it, whatever it may be.