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Proof that borrowing was just time travel for money, and the bill always arrives.
means The act of paying back money you owe, returning it to whoever lent it.
from Built from 'pay,' which traveled through Old French 'paier' back to Latin 'pacare' — meaning to pacify or appease — rooted in 'pax,' peace. Paying someone was literally making peace with them. Add the prefix 're-' (back, again) and 'repayment' becomes, at its root, peace restored a second time: the debt settled, the ledger calm again.
- origin
- from paying back what was never truly yours
- interest
- the fee for making future-you pay for past-you
- psychology
- feels worse than earning felt good
- best kind
- early, because freedom compounds too