These days lots of people don’t do things for themselves and it’s a shame. Having kids definitely kicks your ass into gear if you’re not a piece of shit person and care about the kids to help them grow up in a positive way, though I guess positive is subject to perspective I suppose. We are definitely doing our best to correct the wrongs that were done to us as kids. I didn’t have many egregious ones but there were things I didn’t like about how I was brought up that I’m trying to change as much as I can, and I’m sure my son is going to say the same thing. It’s an odd proposition where we want to fix what we felt wasn’t great but are trying our best and likely our parents did the same and here we are saying that we are correcting things. It’s a strange circular thing now that I think about it.
I hear you on the successful business end. In one of the towns near us there was a huge furniture store that a guy built from his garage I think and it was massive, worth tens of millions of dollars and he had to sell it all because nobody in the family wanted to take it over. Heart breaking story. Guy was in his late 80’s and kept running it hoping his kids would keep it going but they didn’t want to be bothered. Fucked up if you think about it. It’s stupid how we want to make our own mistakes and our own path sometimes lol.
With regards to perfection, I think that’s one of my biggest challenges of the concept of “heaven”. I think we are too destructive for it to ever exist, or if it exists are we living in it right now? Strange to think of!
This is good, isn't it? It is part of improving on the past and evolving for the future. The problem is, when new parents choose to do worse than their own parents, which I think is happening in many ways through the convenience of not doing things themselves.
Out of spite, the guy should have sold it and given all the proceeds to charity! :D
Or, if there is a heaven, we will have to lose our human nature to be there, because our nature is not to be happy with anything for long, which would break the concept of heaven.