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Constantly being angry is what I find hardest about being a father.
Overcoming the weight of Ivy League rejection, I discovered that the key to success and self-worth lies in embracing our own unique paths.
To break the cycle, I must engage in self-purification that results in direct action.
For sure, every person is capable of terrible things. But we, as men, don’t have to believe the delusion that we were born with a monster inside us. We have to stop believing that. We can build our identity as men around the parts of us that are most good.
I don’t want to make noise about the sacrifices I’ve made, but I don’t want my sacrifices to be insulted by ungrateful children. I don’t want my children feel deep shame or know intense suffering, but I also want them to have opportunities to build inner strength. In some ways I need to tell stories about sacrifice, but in other ways that’s counterproductive.
What’s a parent to do?
They key to finding our purpose is setting goals with much longer time scales.
Holy is an interesting word. Most people kind of know what it means, without knowing what it means. What is holiness? I’ll know it when I see it.
But what about me, what does it mean to be holy? Am I holy? This post is an attempt to put words to holiness without having to depend on just knowing it when we see it.
Unless I define “enough”, surplus doesn’t exactly exist.