Why FIRE? Why Financial Independence AS SOON AS POSSIBLE? Are some of them trying to escape from hard works and monetizing less time for being paid to do something? More free time? Are some of them trying to escape from time? Work more so less time. Less free. Less thinking on what else to do. Some really don't know how to spend their free time. Right? Think it is more on Time rather on money that really bother us. Time is fixed amount. All of us have the same amount; but money is variable to every one of us. No one has the right number to achieve their financial independence; but we need to be really really comfortable with the FIRE number as it will be extremely difficult get back to correct it. Track. Check and Benchmark against the nation's median figure......