Mistakes are great to learn from, but do we have to make all the same mistakes as past generations. History repeats because we don't listen and learn from it.
Hopefully, you will find a balance going forward.
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i read something in the past in a book i cant remeber, but the author argued, we are in some way doomed to destroy ourselves, because we cant see past the interest of our own generation, i tend to agree with this.
I also remember having a teacher that had out of the box ways to reach students, he often incorporated other culture examples and sayings, and in one of those examples i remember him saying, that native americans had something along this lines, "this earth is not ours we borrow it from our sons and daughters" i always in my idealist young age thought that if we taught this to all students in the world we could change it... part of me i guess still believes this to some point...
Our own self-interest, though it ends up not in our best interest.
One of my favourite passages is from Khalil Gibran on Children:
https://poets.org/poem/children-1