There's almost no chance your core issues are the same as they were 23 years ago. I'm willing to bet you're dramatically richer, and you're certainly 23 years

There's almost no chance your core issues are the same as they were 23 years ago. I'm willing to bet you're dramatically richer, and you're certainly 23 years older and closer to death. Your views on real estate, music and culture, investment and taxation, and issues relevant to schools and the raising of children would almost certainly be unrecognizable to you in 2000. Your brain now is trying to link them together, to argue that in fact your worldview has been consistent the entire time. That's something your brain wants to do to rationalize this. But the reality is that the consistent worldview you've held this entire time is that you believe that people like you should get what they want. It's normal, nothing to feel bad about, we all do it. But it's helpful to recognize what's actually happening. As someone more articulate than me once said, we all saw things the same we just saw them from a different point of view.