🙆🏻‍♀️ *Imagine 💬 having millions 💰 and losing it all - then choosing to live alone on a deserted island 🏝️ by choice.* It sounds like fiction, but it’s the real-life story of *David Glasheen*, a former millionaire from Australia 🦘. Dubbed *inverted Crusoeism* - a play on *Daniel Defoe's* famous novel about *Robinson Crusoe* - this lifestyle involves willingly embracing solitude and isolation. After *losing his fortune 💰* overnight during the *1987 stock market crash* 📉 known as *Black Monday,* David found himself deeply in debt and alone, facing years of despair and alcoholism 🥃🍻. In 1997 📆, at the age of 53, *David* packed a suitcase with just three shirts 🎽👕👚, two pairs of shorts 🩳, a toothbrush 🪥, some books 📚, and a flashlight 🔦, and set out for Restoration Island 🏝️ - a remote patch of paradise off the coast of *Northern Queensland*. Initially planned as a luxury resort ⛵ for wealthy Australians, the project was halted by disputes with local indigenous communities. Instead of luxury hotels 🏨, *David* discovered a different kind of wealth: *simplicity and resilience* 😇. He restored old WWII observation posts, built his own modest cabin, planted fruit trees 🌴, fished 🎣daily, brewed his own beer 🍻, and even managed a makeshift vegetable 🥒 🍆 garden. Today, he lives comfortably with his dogs 🐕‍🦺🦮, using solar panels for power, collecting rainwater ⛈️, and occasionally trading homemade goods with passing fishermen. Life 🌀 hasn’t been easy—cyclones 🌊 regularly devastate the island, venomous snakes 🪱 and spiders 🕸️ lurk nearby, and David has survived a broken hip and a heart 🫀attack, each requiring emergency airlifts. Yet, he wouldn’t trade his island life for anything. *"What would I do back in the city?"* he asks, *"Swap ocean breezes for air conditioning and traffic 🚦? That's just not me."* 🙆🏻‍♀️ Sometimes losing everything is exactly how you find yourself. 🎯 💁🏻‍♀️ *Would you choose solitude in paradise over city comforts?* 👍 *= Yes* 🤞 *= No*