At the risk of sounding like a wanker that hasn't read your post, which I have:
Nice photos!!
I went off travelling as a kid of 21 and left my horse for Dad to look after and ride. He did, but eventually gave me a good talking to about responsibility. I was too self absorbed at that age. Cue late 30s and I would drop anything for my parents and would give anything to go back in time and cut that fucking sharp painful NZ flax Dad wanted me to deal with. Even though his request was unreasonable!
IDK I am convinced it's how we raise our kids.
Yeah it's for sure a lot to do with how we raise them! I know that I’ve had to have a lot of things corrected in terms of behaviors I was doing later in life that I got from when I was raised. I just can’t understand how people can’t handle normal situations in life without having a breakdown. I don’t know if I’m being insensitive but this individual is pretty obnoxious with these things, but takes 20-30 vacations a year it’s wild lol.
I know what you mean about doing something foolish when we are younger. I’ve got a few things I’ve done where looking back I wish I could have done it differently but that’s life and the most important thing is we learned from it which it thankfully sounds like you did.