A friend once told me: "Be fast to act on your values and slow to act on emotion. Values are stable. Emotions fluctuate. Confusing the two leads to decisions you spend weeks undoing."
The older I get, the more I realize just how right he was.
The older you get, the more you realize your parents weren’t clueless. They were tired. They were scared. They were making the best call they could with limited money, limited info, and a lot riding on it... just like you are now.
Generational curses are real & can only be broken through Christ. If there is a pattern in your bloodline, there’s a curse.
“Lord God, it is you who have made the heavens & the Earth by your great power & your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you. You show steadfast love to thousands, but you repay the guilt of fathers to their children after them.”
Jeremiah 32:16
The amount of time I spend thinking about the past is effectively zero. The amount of space "the past" occupies in my mental horizon is a rounding error. Nietzsche says that one's capacity for forgetting is an indicator of one's health and physical vitality. I believe this.
I have a friend who used to work for 2 billionaires after all he's seen he said to me, "I wish you not one penny over $299 million. Reality gets completely lost somewhere after that."
I think about that sometimes.