Comments on: It’s Cool To Be Adult http://www.diamondcutlife.org/its-cool-to-be-adult/ Sustainable Living: The Heart Of The Matter Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:24:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Colleen http://www.diamondcutlife.org/its-cool-to-be-adult/comment-page-1/#comment-1022 Colleen Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:51:33 +0000 http://www.diamondcutlife.org/?p=218#comment-1022 I like the adulthood analogy. As painful as it may be to see people lose their now-unaffordable homes, letting "the fall" happen is sometimes the best lesson of all. My mother always used to say, "If you can't listen, you have to feel." She learned that phrase from her mother, who was born before there were cars, and who helped a family of six survive the Great Depression. In our modern age, many people just weren't listening to what should have been their own common sense when they got in over their heads with what boils down to over-consumption. Self-discipline starts in the home, and if we don't teach it to our children, they (and we) are all going to take a big fall. That's what we're seeing now with the financial crisis -- the actions of a few are affecting lots of us. I think a bailout for those that got scammed by unscrupulous lenders, or for folks that need extra time to get their financial house in order (including selling the too-expensive home) is just fine. Let's just be adults about it. I like the adulthood analogy. As painful as it may be to see people lose their now-unaffordable homes, letting “the fall” happen is sometimes the best lesson of all. My mother always used to say, “If you can’t listen, you have to feel.”

She learned that phrase from her mother, who was born before there were cars, and who helped a family of six survive the Great Depression.

In our modern age, many people just weren’t listening to what should have been their own common sense when they got in over their heads with what boils down to over-consumption. Self-discipline starts in the home, and if we don’t teach it to our children, they (and we) are all going to take a big fall.

That’s what we’re seeing now with the financial crisis — the actions of a few are affecting lots of us. I think a bailout for those that got scammed by unscrupulous lenders, or for folks that need extra time to get their financial house in order (including selling the too-expensive home) is just fine.

Let’s just be adults about it.

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