You are absolutely right, if we actually work to provide everything for ourselves, retiring early will be the last thing on my mind just as you have said
But doing what we love and like won't be affecting our wellbeing as long as we are doing it with our heart and mind, we might even work without getting tired of it because we will be enjoying doing the work and the way our economic is right now in my country, we will have to work things for ourselves and to our own comfortable too.
Of course when we start to get older, we will think about growing old with our family and also doing things we like that we didn't have time to do before because we were working, but in the future we will do it for that reason creating pleasure for ourselves and our families. However, we can imagine that if our finances were stable when we were young, we didn't waste a lot of money on things we didn't want or wasted it, we would definitely imagine a beautiful old age.
Therefore, prepare well now if you want to enjoy old age, because if not we will continue to work without any restrictions on rest when we are old It is important to think about the future rather than wasting money on youth.