After a work week full of obligations and serious activities at work, I used the last weekend for a complete restart.
Saturday - a trip on a beautiful day, Sunday - all day at home, with Netflix and a book by a favorite thriller writer...
i read all the topics that galenkp suggested and i was thinking about one of them...
Although I could give some advice about health and healthy habits at the age of almost 50, I would not dare, since I myself often seek recommendations from professionals, nutritionists and trainers.
As for spending $50 on books or clothing, I'd be on the edge of my seat judging by the posts about the books in my collection and my shirts.
In the same way, I would not confirm on this occasion that I am a house type and that at this moment I am not overly attracted to night parties, but that I rather decide to spend time with my partner (and thus definitively confirm that I have crossed the border of young days to a serious age 🙂 ).
There is a remaining topic
What do you believe you needed but didn't get from your parents and how has that affected your life
so I thought it would be OK to share with you on this occasion…
When I was growing up, we found ourselves in an ugly time. The civil war in Yugoslavia led to the collapse of the state and a fratricidal war.
A period of economic collapse followed, and from a period of middle-class prosperity, we found ourselves in misery.
My parents tried with all their might to provide us with everything they could. They were lucky, so we weren't demanding and didn't have big desires.
Today I am talking to a friend, who told me that she has to buy her son a new iPhone 16... He does not ask her if she will be able to buy it for him nor does he think that he should deserve it, he thinks that it belongs to him and she he has to do what he knows how to do. Unfortunately, and will do...
A wardrobe, money to spend with the company, compulsory school excursions...
These are all expenses that today's younger generations consider to be normal for their needs, asking their parents to pay for them...
But I won't talk now about the pampering of the new, young generations, so as not to sound like an old brat (since I don't have my own children, I don't have the right to such a thing), but it seems to me that these new generations expect to receive much more than what we received 40 years ago (because we didn't expect anything).
We only expected what we deserve or earn.
For good success in school, for regularly doing homework, for daily house work...
Maybe our parents couldn't provide us with material things for which they didn't have money, but they brought us up well and instilled in us some values that guided us through life.
We are taught to create everything we need ourselves, without expecting to receive anything...
However, there is one thing, which I was deprived of and which certainly changed the course of my life... In which direction my life would go, is the question, but I know that then, due to my father's unemployment, the denied opportunity for schooling led to that I had to get a job and leave the university.
I did in later years, when everything returned to its place (father continued to work, I had my own money). continued with my education, read many books like the one in the picture and directed myself towards the profession that I am doing today, but for that one year of my life during the first year of college, it remained as an unfulfilled expectation, because "I should have just studied and I'm giving exams", and I was disabled because I had to earn money for food for myself and my family (to help my mother feed us).
I believe that the upbringing I received from my parents is more valuable than any school, and that the work habits I acquired at an early age helped me a lot in my later career, so that faculty might not mean much to me, but still, it remains as a bitter memory of the period when I could not get what some of my peers around the world got - carefree student days...
