Life requires planning to ensure happiness. If you don't plan for your old age when you're young, how can you have a happy life? My pursuit of happiness is not high—I just want to carry my good tea when I'm old, travel around the country to find tea friends, and go on in-depth trips with them.

Pu'er, dark tea, white tea, and now aged Tieguanyin all improve with storage. If stored for twenty years, their value can multiply. Having tasted many aged teas, their flavor and richness improve significantly, though aroma varies. Unlike experts who analyze them chemically, I store tea simply to enjoy it in my old age—that alone is reason enough.

When young, you may earn well and be a pillar of society, but retirement means relying on social security. Can we trust it? The future is uncertain. Even if tea prices remain the same later, would you buy it? If you hesitate now when financially capable, how could you afford it later? You’d only dream about it.

Another reason to store tea: in old age, good tea is all I’ll need. Savings can’t keep up with inflation, and wages pale over time. I regret saving money in 2000—had I stored tea instead, it’d be priceless now. Storing tea now means not buying it later, no matter how prices rise.

Beyond quality, aged tea gains medicinal properties, which will help maintain my aging body. That’s a task I’ll gladly leave to my beloved tea.

On a poetic note, tea preserves memories. Drinking it in old age, recalling each tea’s origin and youthful days, will be a nostalgic joy.

Ultimately, no grand reasons are needed. If storing tea feels right, that’s enough—don’t you agree, fellow tea lovers?