The world these days seems to have far too many people who seem to base their lives around the lives of their ancestors rather than producing and being constructive themselves. How many people measure their life and define themselves not by their own actions but rather by the history of those that came before them?
Our ancestors are important. They built things. They had successes. They had failures. None of us would be here without them.
Good. Learn from that.
Now who are you?
Are you an individual that is going to do things?
Do you spend your time talking about yourself related to your ancestors?
If so, how does that make you unique?
What are you bringing into the world?
Did your ancestors nit pick and talk about their ancestors?
Did your ancestors complain about what happened to their ancestors and spend a lot of their life doing that?
Did your ancestors spend a lot of time saying "If only X" happened in the past?
Likely your ancestors like all of ours struggled to survive and better their lives. They also likely worked to better the lives of people around them because in doing so it tended to also lift them up.
All of our ancestors did not live remotely as good as we do. That includes Kings and Queens.
We live better than Kings and Queens once did and we have more luxuries than they did.
Why? Our ancestors worked hard. There are also a lot of people today that still work hard.
There however are a lot of people that seem to fixate on what happened to their ancestors and that IS THEIR LIFE. They are not bringing anything new. They are making their life about complaining about what happened to their ancestors. They are claiming things would have been different if X hadn't occurred. Yet that is purely speculation. They can't actually know what would have occurred without X.
They are fixated on turning the past into an imaginary world that would have been what they think it would have been. It still is imaginary.
They fixate on that and don't focus on building, constructing, and giving their descendants something to talk about.
In a few generations will the descendants be saying...
"If my ancestors actually had done something other than complain and talk about how they were a victim I'd have so much more stuff..."
This would of course be a vicious cycle of not actually accomplishing anything positive...
It usually is being a pushed as an excuse for why a person thinks they deserve special treatment. This certainly doesn't lead to any kind of progress. It is a spiral of false entitlement.
