Obituary for a quiet life (2023) 2 years ago
This is nice story.
That said, I feel like the people praising "the quiet life" are missing that this man found a companion at ~20yrs old and with that companion had a family and kids and grand kids.
Plenty of people never find that anchor/base/partner
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/10/05/rising-...
It's arguably easy to be content when you have good support around you. Bad or no support and it's much harder.