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My Daughter(F23) wants me(F54) to sell my entire estate and use it to travel the world
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But I want to go further and explain why I see this as an existential clash.
This story, like most stories, can be looked at as just what it is on surface level. But I feel it hits so many existential nerves that it would be too easy to overlook it. I’m sure this pattern of mine happens to anyone studying a topic or area of thought. Where you can read or hear about any situation or story and see it through the lens of your school, I just feel like the lens of philosophy fits better for most relationship stories than, say, the lens of math or physics.
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The daughter's reasoning might be sound in her view of what life is about, and for her, it’s traveling the world, which is absolutely fine, but I have a couple of points. First, whether you call it a dream, or fluffing your meaning, fund it yourself, or forever hold your peace. Secondly, your self-fulfillment shouldn’t generally crush someone else’s, and if it involves running over everything your own mother finds meaningful. Maybe the first place you should travel is where your conscience and morals are, because I have a feeling you haven’t been there in a while.
The mother says a lot about the ranch, but it’s obvious what the core is here. It isn’t land, it’s love.
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"That land is the only thing that still feels like home because every corner of it has him in it."
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So it's not only that the daughter can’t seem to fathom the idea of life’s work, but she also doesn’t seem to have a lot of respect for legacy, not even her own father’s. I’m not here to give any advice, but it looks likethe 23-year-old has a lot she still has to learn about life, from Honor thy father and mother, to what adult life looks like. And maybe just maybe, mom should teach her this lesson in the form of disinheritance.
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I could go further into existential ideas and how they relate to this story, but the more I write, the more I think the girl in the story doesn't deserve so much thought. Maybe I was right earlier,r and we’ll just call her an entitled, disrespectful, inconsiderate brat and call it a day.
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54-year-old rancher refuses to sell the ranch she built with her late husband after her daughter demands the money to fund a travel lifestyle: ‘That land is the only thing that still feels like home because every corner of it has him in it’
This story is obviously about a rancher and her ranch, her daughter and her disregard, but it's also about legacy, memory, and meaning. The easy way to go about this 23-year-old is to say she's an entitled, disrespectful, inconsiderate brat and call it a day.
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