How point of view changes from teens to your twenties!!

Alot changes within us over time… The same happened to me too. There were certain things I used to believe firmly as a girl in her teens and on the same things my views are different as a grown up lady… I looked down upon people who used to smoke or drink or party every weekend. I felt they were losers and craved for external validation and socialization. But now I know it is not what you do, but who you are underneath, that defines you. I used to do things that made me look cool without truly understanding why had I been doing that… now I know that people do not remember you for how cool you were but how compassionate, empathetic & authentic you have been. I felt the lack of money was the root cause of all my family problems. And once we have money, we no longer will have any problems. But now I feel that our problems are the stories we tell ourselves, of how everything will be fine once we get what we want. I felt that rich kids will never make it in life, because they got ...