Dear Felix:

If I now understand correctly, there is a new development in your mind and heart: you are beginning to appreciate your life with your parents and with your father’s businesses, including the aquarium business- this is an excellent development and I am glad to read about it! It is very good news to me because it will be way easier for you to build on your father’s businesses than to look for a job as a beginning employee someplace else.

Yes, do appreciate your life as it is, including your family businesses. I bet there are changes you can make to the aquarium business to make it more pleasant and interesting for yourself.

Regarding having bragged/ showed off in the past about your parents’ wealth- you figure it’s the wrong behavior, you regret it and you will not repeat it, good thing. No reason to punish yourself for it. Imagine you had a child and the child bragged, if the child learned to not repeat that behavior, there is no reason to punish the child, is there?

anita