The most important things you build will not be finished within your lifetime.

A parent paying school fees on an unsteady income is not funding a term. They are funding a grandchild's options, twenty-five years out, and will never see that ledger balance.

Nigeria teaches this well. The uncle who trained six people. The woman who kept a small shop so her children could sit in a classroom. Neither of them saw the full return.

Modern life rewards the visible and the immediate. The long view is deeply unfashionable, and it remains the only thing that compounds properly across generations.