General Washington issues an order discouraging profanity among his troops:
“The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing (a vice heretofore little known in an American Army) is growing into fashion; he hopes the officers will, by example, as well as influence, endeavour to check it, and that both they, and the men will reflect, that we can have little hopes of the blessing of Heaven on our Arms, if we insult it by our impiety and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense, and character, detests and despises it.”
You kept treating both like they would always be there, like later was guaranteed; you kept saying later, you used to talk about realizing and you had time, and now you're standing in the future knowing you had the potential
@Manhattva A farmer who buys new hens from the market while letting his current flock starve in neglected, rotting coops is just compounding his failure. Bringing in fresh stock without fixing the underlying rot only guarantees that the new arrivals meet the same slow decline