Not so good at preparing for the future.
The future is filled with things the past cannot even imagine. Nothing wrong with the past but it helps to keep it in perspective.
BTW there are many concepts which are beyond description and defy factual knowledge. Things like honor, integrity, love, determination, righteousness, holiness, goodness...evil.
Accountants are great at seeing the world in simple boxes and sets of accounts. Disclosure: I started my career as a CPA many, many years ago. I was even heading in that direction at the time.
"If it can't be classified and properly accounted for in the books, perhaps it isn't real?"
As you and I know, whether we "know" or don't know if something is real has NO bearing to its actual existence.
As Hamlet said to Horatio:
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.We know just how true that is because being old we can remember a time when things we take for granted today would have been considered an impossibility.
Exactly right. That is the precise axis upon which my own *belief* system turns.
Essentially, there is Truth, and then there's everything else. I don't claim to have the ability to see ultimate Truth, but I also refuse to accept things as *true*, simply because some authority insists certain things are real for me. That's for the individual to determine, and no one else.
For example, it's written in the Christian Bible that there is a heaven and a hell. I have zero subjective reality on the truth of that assertion, so I choose not to accept it as actual fact. The Bible also states that we are all spirits, which I do accept as real because I have subjective reality on it.
The future is known. The past determined it.