want to work the next day. we want to be in love but not commit, we want to grow old living in an expensive house and drive nice cars but we don’t want to work for the money that will pay for it all. learning to be independent was the first skill i had to master as a grown up, not how to handle money but more importantly how to spend it.
i grew up in a family where money never grew on trees, my parents always taught me from a young age to work for my money and never to ask for it. at first, i thought they were being 