I was reading up on those kinds of books that always emphasize the fact that We Teach You Things that You DON'T Learn in School! No to make fun of them or anything because each one actually is new and interesting and all of them and different and original from each other. Anyway in one of them I learned something very cool. After Hitler killed the guy who killed Hitler (SPOILER ALERT! It was Hitler!) it turns our that the part of his family that remained decided to make a mutual agreement. They all decided not to reproduce as to die out the Hitler name entirely. How nice is that? There is a book called the The Last of the Hitlers. A section of the book focuses primarily on that, here's an excerpt that I found from it. They didn't sign a pact what they did is, they talked amongst themselves, talked about the burden they've had in the background of their lives, and decided none of them would marry, none of them would have children. And that's... a pact they've kept till today. I admire them so much for that, how much will power does it take to stop working towards getting the thing that you've wanted all your life, all for a thing that you didn't even do, a screw up that your family member made. But a see a huge problem within that.
Price is what you pay, and for it value is what you get. Your values are what you work for what work toward because that's what you hold the most important. But when you sacrifice you surrender your values. The ultimate sacrifice like the one I just illustrated is a total surrender of every single one of your values. Let me make something clear though, a sacrifice is not starving yourself so that your child can have food, its starving yourself and your child so that you friends child doesn't starve. Its not giving a pregnant woman your seat of the subway, its giving it to an energetic full bodied person.
When its put this way it seems quite stupid doesn't it. So don't sacrifice, pay for an asset not a liability.
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