Just so. Though, I think my growing comfort with change is also responsible.
One of the best lessons I learned from my parents was that generating money isn't the hard part. Rather, it's knowing and defining your quality of life, then calculating backward to how much you actually need, so you can spend wisely and live richly.
I've been fortunate to live richly within my means -- for the most part. True, I've had clear cases where I stumbled, or focused on factors entirely outside of my control. But ultimately, I'm quite comfortable with having just enough to support my means, my meager goals, and a healthy level of personal growth.
I'm still not sure where I'll go from here. If anything, nowhere. I'm content in the fact I don't need to go anywhere right now, except where I'd like to, and for my own reasons.
For me, that triggers a profound sense of inner peace. It's the first time in a long chain of reactive events that I can simply break free and be myself, for whatever value of "self" that may be.
-- Updated to add: And yes, I do have your help to thank for some of that. I'm aware that it wasn't much, from your perspective. But what little there was did help me in the right direction. :)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
branchandroot
no subject
Date: 2010-09-07 06:27 am (UTC)One of the best lessons I learned from my parents was that generating money isn't the hard part. Rather, it's knowing and defining your quality of life, then calculating backward to how much you actually need, so you can spend wisely and live richly.
I've been fortunate to live richly within my means -- for the most part. True, I've had clear cases where I stumbled, or focused on factors entirely outside of my control. But ultimately, I'm quite comfortable with having just enough to support my means, my meager goals, and a healthy level of personal growth.
I'm still not sure where I'll go from here. If anything, nowhere. I'm content in the fact I don't need to go anywhere right now, except where I'd like to, and for my own reasons.
For me, that triggers a profound sense of inner peace. It's the first time in a long chain of reactive events that I can simply break free and be myself, for whatever value of "self" that may be.
--
Updated to add: And yes, I do have your help to thank for some of that. I'm aware that it wasn't much, from your perspective. But what little there was did help me in the right direction. :)