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My question, basically, in a nutshell, is two weeks ago for my 60-second birthday. I paid my mortgage

off 16 years early.

Good for you.

Well, all my friends, I mean, all my friends are telling me I made the biggest mistake of my life,

and now I'm really terrified that they're correct, given the current market situations and

things. So my question was to try to get some guidance from you based on my current situation.

You need new friends.

Well, let me give you just a quick content. I'm 62.

I'm single.

I'm in the midst of an eight-year canceled battle, and my doctor said I won't be able to

return to work for the foreseeable future.

So based on that, you know, my friends are telling me I took my liquid assets that I had to pay it off 16 years early.

And that was a big mistake because my interest rate was 3.5% and I could have been making all the things you hear.

But now I'm afraid maybe they were right.

Do you still have a nest egg?

So what I basically, I have is I'm afraid maybe they were right. Do you still have a nest egg? So what I basically,

I have is I'm currently my income. I have a disability benefit from my former employer

that separated me last June for disability of 7,070 a month. And that will end by three years the way the policy set up when I turned 65, but it could

end before previous.

I get a $3,000 monthly SSDI payment after the taxes and the Medicare deducted.

And then I've got my assets, I have an $80,000 emergency fund in cash, and I have $23,000 in cash

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