(This post is for those who pay higher portion of their income to housing loans)
A post on LinkedIn said buying a house on a long term loan takes off the creativity from us and it does not let us do whatever we want to accomplish in our lives. True, as we have to honor the EMI we owe to bank, we step away from taking risks and stick to routine jobs and in the process, creativity and innovation get lost. So what is our aim in life? If it is just owning a house, then we should buy a house as early as possible and stop worrying about rest of the aims or purposes in life. But the mid-life crisis does not let us live happily in the houses we built from the borrowed money. The question comes back again and again of what we wanted from our lives and owning a house at the expense of our careers tied to it for decades does not look that meaningful. At least to me.
Then I came across this article. https://www.thriveglobal.com/stories/15578-you-can-t-thrive-and-change-the-world-on-a-hamster-wheel. It was a straight hit on the head of the nail with such an impact that it got into my head effortlessly. Probably I was convinced with the idea already and this article came as a reinforcement. We end up buying many unwanted things, buying a house bigger than we need and so on. The worst part is we do it with debt. That is how we walk into slavery. As we owe more money to banks, we start liking our jobs and bosses like never before. Time rolls on. We slowly understand what we are missing and as we start realizing the how we got into this trap, it is the housing loan which begins to appear like a mountain on our path to freedom. Ok, we have realized our mistakes. What can be done now? We can transfer loan to another bank at a lower rate and get some relief. We can liquidate some savings to pay-off the debt partially. Well, if it still hurts then it is time to become an even harder working slave. Take a resolve and direct much of savings to paying off the debt. That way a 20 year loan can be repaid in 5 years or so. Well, we can earn freedom from EMI at least 5 years from now, that is a lot better than 20 years.
I have figured out how I can bring down my housing loan EMI to equivalent of rent. I am focused on executing that plan and keen to end the slavery in couple of years. I know buying a house is not at all a mistake but we should be willing to be a slave (let go of other good things in life) to digest that loan. Shorter the enslavement period, the better it is. When I am off the hamster wheel, I will let you know.
A post on LinkedIn said buying a house on a long term loan takes off the creativity from us and it does not let us do whatever we want to accomplish in our lives. True, as we have to honor the EMI we owe to bank, we step away from taking risks and stick to routine jobs and in the process, creativity and innovation get lost. So what is our aim in life? If it is just owning a house, then we should buy a house as early as possible and stop worrying about rest of the aims or purposes in life. But the mid-life crisis does not let us live happily in the houses we built from the borrowed money. The question comes back again and again of what we wanted from our lives and owning a house at the expense of our careers tied to it for decades does not look that meaningful. At least to me.
Then I came across this article. https://www.thriveglobal.com/stories/15578-you-can-t-thrive-and-change-the-world-on-a-hamster-wheel. It was a straight hit on the head of the nail with such an impact that it got into my head effortlessly. Probably I was convinced with the idea already and this article came as a reinforcement. We end up buying many unwanted things, buying a house bigger than we need and so on. The worst part is we do it with debt. That is how we walk into slavery. As we owe more money to banks, we start liking our jobs and bosses like never before. Time rolls on. We slowly understand what we are missing and as we start realizing the how we got into this trap, it is the housing loan which begins to appear like a mountain on our path to freedom. Ok, we have realized our mistakes. What can be done now? We can transfer loan to another bank at a lower rate and get some relief. We can liquidate some savings to pay-off the debt partially. Well, if it still hurts then it is time to become an even harder working slave. Take a resolve and direct much of savings to paying off the debt. That way a 20 year loan can be repaid in 5 years or so. Well, we can earn freedom from EMI at least 5 years from now, that is a lot better than 20 years.
I have figured out how I can bring down my housing loan EMI to equivalent of rent. I am focused on executing that plan and keen to end the slavery in couple of years. I know buying a house is not at all a mistake but we should be willing to be a slave (let go of other good things in life) to digest that loan. Shorter the enslavement period, the better it is. When I am off the hamster wheel, I will let you know.
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