Here's a truth I always take to the bank: if you have the extra money to lend someone who's asked you for it, then it's money you can survive the month without. Because you wouldn't help someone unless you could, right? Right.
I think of debts as money for investments and savings. Only difference is, it's money that's temporarily in someone else's pocket, not yours.
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