Conclusion
To conclude my journey, I determined that you need money to make money. You should save money if you wish to invest, and not to increase the standard at which you live.
My best advice is to not live at an unsustainable standard of living, save for your retirement accounts, and invest.
My next step would have included me going deeper to find out the nitty gritty about each types of investment and their ROIs, especially real estate. I never quite got a chance to invest some of my time into real estate and looking back, I wish I had more time to read and write about it more.
Concluding thought: Spend money how you want to spend money, but know that you could’ve always done something different to make more money. Don’t be mad at rich people because they made those sacrifices and you didn’t.