Thanks for inviting me to your Substack, Keris. It was a bit weird to cast my memory back such a long way. I don't really remember that version of myself! But it prompted me to compare and contrast my attitude to money then and now. How things have changed!
“I still think that if I find something easy or if it comes naturally to me, I don’t deserve to be paid (well) for it.” Hearing this!👂🏼
I do wonder if it’s passed down into our subconscious. Like other ones I’ve come across like “it’s ok for me to spend money, as long as it’s not for the good of my health”
I can’t remember if I wrote about it here or not, but Nick Hornby wrote recently about how his parents were alive during the war and how he hadn’t realised until recently how that had impacted him. I think there must definitely be some of that for me too.
I’ve recently been interviewing my 93yo nan about the war - I’m turning her and my granddads life into a story book for a competition. I feel confident I’ll win because they fell in love because of the war (my grandad repairing war damage many miles from where he lived). Times were very hard for people back then. However, what I find super interesting is that all the elderly clients I work with when I ask them, tell me people were happier then. Also healthier too. It’s so fascinating how we’ve all lost sight of so much and don’t make the connections these days. It continues to have a huge impact on us but also modern day living and all the modern cons and luxuries we have to make life easier appear to be having the opposite effect on our health and happiness.
Thanks for inviting me to your Substack, Keris. It was a bit weird to cast my memory back such a long way. I don't really remember that version of myself! But it prompted me to compare and contrast my attitude to money then and now. How things have changed!
A completely different world!
“I still think that if I find something easy or if it comes naturally to me, I don’t deserve to be paid (well) for it.” Hearing this!👂🏼
I do wonder if it’s passed down into our subconscious. Like other ones I’ve come across like “it’s ok for me to spend money, as long as it’s not for the good of my health”
I can’t remember if I wrote about it here or not, but Nick Hornby wrote recently about how his parents were alive during the war and how he hadn’t realised until recently how that had impacted him. I think there must definitely be some of that for me too.
I’ve recently been interviewing my 93yo nan about the war - I’m turning her and my granddads life into a story book for a competition. I feel confident I’ll win because they fell in love because of the war (my grandad repairing war damage many miles from where he lived). Times were very hard for people back then. However, what I find super interesting is that all the elderly clients I work with when I ask them, tell me people were happier then. Also healthier too. It’s so fascinating how we’ve all lost sight of so much and don’t make the connections these days. It continues to have a huge impact on us but also modern day living and all the modern cons and luxuries we have to make life easier appear to be having the opposite effect on our health and happiness.