The Debt we owe our parents we pay to our children

The world would be a simpler place if all debt was payable. I mean, if a debt was only about money not everyone would have one because some people just have enough wealth to pay for anything or when given enough time most people could pay anything off too.

But for those unpayable, unwritten debts that can only be felt tagging at your very essence and a constant in your thoughts. The ones that keep you up at night and give you a slow day at work. Those too are worth understanding.

With the lessons life has thrown at me, I’ve learned that everyone regardless of what you do or where you live and work owe some kind of debt to someone or something. Depending on what you believe in, evidence of this can be found anywhere. Science explains it through things like genetics or evolution, like how our ancestors had to adapt and evolve according to their environment to survive, thereafter passing these traits down to ensure the survival of the next generation and therefore ensuring the survival of the human race or Religion through creation and love for everyone.

So just because you have good credit or have paid every friend you ever owed, you might still owe someone or something a debt.?

Personally the one debt I feel everyone owes, is the debt they owe to their parents. “Parents” being the people or person that raised you. Either your whole childhood or at some point during that time.?

You see, it doesn’t really matter what opinion or regard you hold of those people, either way they contributed in one way or the other to who you are as a person and have even influenced your view of the world.

Of course when we get older we start to subscribe to what we feel works and stick to it while ignoring or dismissing the rest as unlearned lessons.

Therefore everyone, even “the powerpuff girls” owe such a debt to someone. Though I’ve come to learn that depending on many different reasons from, who you are or where you are from or even how you were raised that debt is defined differently.

Let’s for a moment imagine you define that debt as owning your parents for what they did or have done for you all your life. Even if you get all mathematical about it you’d sooner arrive to the solution that, that’s one debt you couldn’t possibly pay back in full. Such a debt goes beyond what you can physically touch and see.

Such a covenant can even exist with people you meet along the way as you journey through life.?

Being someone that prides myself for paying my debts, I have often spent a lot of time contemplating on how best to pay back the people that raised, protected and provided for me when I couldn’t. But no matter how you break it down, that’s one debt that can’t be squared.

These days though, as I experience life more as an adult and hear from friends or close relations about the moment they became a parent. Well let’s just say the feeling most describe is one I’ve never had and imagine could only be felt by a parent.

I don’t know if it’s some kind of coding in our genetics, creation or just human nature. But whatever it is. Most people work for their children and some like me who aren’t parents still think of leaving something for the next generation. To be remembered by or to help them out. Either through knowledge or wealth.

With this I have come to the conclusion that regardless of who you owe, all debts are payable but for the debt we owe to those that raised us. A debt that can only be satisfied through our children.?

?????????“A Lannister always pays his debts “

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Dedicated to all the parents out there! ??

Thanks for reading!