It’s not that people don’t care about their money. Most of the time, it’s the opposite. They care so much they avoid it.
You don’t want to open the bill because you already know it’s going to stress you out. You avoid checking your account balance because you’d rather not see the number. You say you’ll sit down with it next week, but next week never really comes.
Eventually it starts to hang over you. You’re not always thinking about it, but it’s always there. In the background. In the choices you make. In the hesitation before you swipe your card. In the way you put things off, not because you can’t afford them, but because you don’t want to deal with how it makes you feel.
It’s hard to look at the numbers when you’re already tired. It takes energy to face it, even more energy to admit that you need help, and sometimes more than that just to say, “I don’t even know where to start.”
I think a lot of people stay stuck because they believe they should already have it together by now. They feel embarrassed. So they keep avoiding it. They say things like, “I’ll figure it out when things calm down,” but things never really do.
Peace doesn’t come from perfection. It comes from clarity. From finally looking. From saying, “Okay, this is where I am,” and letting that be enough for now.
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