Your great-grandparents made choices that put you here. Some of yours will put someone else somewhere.

You exist because of a long chain of decisions made by people with no idea you would be the result. Where to move, what work to take, who to stay with, all of it propagated forward into your entire situation. Your own choices are already doing the same thing to somebody downstream.

When you make a sizeable decision this year, spend a minute on who else it eventually touches. That is not pressure, only a reason to take yourself seriously.