it's important to not just repeat, obviously, what your parents have taught you.

Right? Like there's real benefits and there's real gifts to be had by breaking some cycles,

but also understanding, like, why was that cycle there in the first place, which I think is

what you were talking about with your parents? And then breaking the cycle would also help

the older generation understand and say, I know that you want me to do this because

this is where you come from. But in the end, right? Like, they don't want us to

you know, work ourselves to the bone because they're dead and they don't want, you know,

us to to to cling on, you know, to to save the tea for the rest of our life, like, you know, not

completely fulfilling our purpose in life simply because they had to break make some some really

bold decisions to secure their safety, right? It's that they want us to thrive. So we need to

define what that means for us. And then, like, sort of, you know, I think we all that at the

least in a terms help to understand and say, I actually am receiving the legacy that you want to

pass on, but it doesn't look the way that you would think it needs to, you know, that you think it

needs to look like. And those can be really deeply transformational conversations. And of course,

sometimes it doesn't work, right? They'll just like, yeah.

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