I hit my number 8 months ago and still haven't pulled the trigger. Trying to figure out why. I'm 41, been working toward this for about 12 years. Index funds, kept lifestyle pretty flat while income grew, the whole standard playbook. By most calculations I crossed my target number last spring - 25x expenses with a decent cushion on top and then I just kept working I told myself it was sequence of returns risk, which is real and I do think about it. Then it was "one more quarter to see how the market settles." Then I took on a project at work that seemed interesting and I thought I'd finish it out. That project ended in December. I'm still there. The honest thing I've been sitting with lately is I'm not sure the number was ever really the thing. I built this whole identity around optimizing and tracking and hitting milestones, and now that the milestone is technically hit I don't know what the day after looks like. I have hobbies. I have people I want to spend time with. On paper that should be enough.…