Decendants

Life is rather ironic. At a time in your life when you have the most energy and health and your whole future is before you -- you have less experience than you will for the rest of your life.

Good people will try to help you, to tell you what they know from their own experience, but you won't believe them and there will be other people  who won't try to help you. They will tell you what you want to hear, or what they want you to do, but not what is right for you.

It's very difficult to know the truth in these circumstances. Who do you trust?

Yourself? The people who make you feel good in the moment?  The people whose life seems reasonably successful?  Ultimately you have to trust yourself and hope you've gathered enough "savy" to do the best you can picking and choosing from the others.

Look closely. Some of your favorite people had unnecessarily hard lives because they did not choose wisely. Some of their decisions made your life harder than it needed to be. And some are now spawning a third generation of bad decision makers who will also have lives that are more difficult than they need to be.

And sadly they will pass this tendency to choose less wisely on down through the ages.

So break out of the rut. Do the hard thing, the wise thing, the loving thing, now and lay the way for an easier and happier life for you and your descendants.