You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Parental debt passes down to children or humanity instead of being repaid.
- In plain terms
- You cannot pay back parents; the debt goes to kids.
- What can you take from it?
- Accept parental debt is passed forward.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What do you owe your parents?
- Who pays the debt?
Another view
Not everyone has children to pass this on to.
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