There are some choices in life that are more expensive than we think.
Not because they cost us money.
But because they cost us time. Potential. Presence. People.
Earlier this year, a 3-year-old boy became the first person to receive gene therapy for Hunter syndrome – a rare disease that slowly robs children of their minds and lives. Left untreated, it leads to dementia-like decline and early death.
The standard response?
$500,000 a year in enzyme therapy. Three hours. Every week.
It slows some of the physical damage, but not the mental decay.
Until now.
When Risk Becomes Mercy
Doctors took his stem cells, rewrote the gene, and gave them back.
This time, the treatment reached his brain.
And what they found… wasn’t a stall. It wasn’t a delay.
It was a child waking up. Reversing. Recovering.
And while that boy plays and grows, I can’t help but think of the millions of “untreated” lives around us – not with faulty genes, but with dormant potential.
The ones where the therapy exists… but the decision never gets made.
What’s Your Therapy?
Every one of us is living with something broken – some inherited belief, some ancestral wound, some old programming still running in the background.
And every day we put off healing it, we pay a price:
In relationships we push away because of old stories.
In dreams we downsize because of old fears.
In joy we never feel because of untreated grief.
Sometimes the most expensive choice in life is the one that feels safest:
Doing nothing.
The Cost of Waiting
We don’t all need gene therapy. But many of us need soul therapy.
We need to:
Remove the patterns that don’t serve us.
Replace the internal narrative.
Reinsert our lives, rewritten.
And if a 3-year-old can undergo radical treatment to preserve his mind, what’s stopping us from doing the same with our story?
One Final Question
What part of your life is in decline because you haven’t yet chosen to treat it?
Whatever your answer, the treatment starts when you stop doing nothing.