At the time of writing this, I am not a father nor do I know if I will ever have a son.
But the world has mistreated, looked down upon, and disrespected woman for centuries and changing that is the duty of men, especially fathers.
This is a few lessons to our sons in treating woman the way they were born to be treated; with love, respect and dignity.
Making decisions is possibly the hardest thing I ever do.
The less decisions I have to make, the happier I find myself.
Of course, this does not apply to areas of life where decision making is either a team effort (like relationships), or part of my responsibilities (like career tasks).
We have all committed to doing things we were not entirely enthusiastic about, or over-committing to a vast amount of things that are mediocre. Life is too short to be consumed by the mediocre.
Say yes to less, say yes to better; this is the way to go.
We all have goals, dreams, and aspirations.
There is always something we hope to achieve that we think will make our lives much better and will help us attain glorious happiness.
We tell ourselves stories that if we achieve this one goal – get this one item, get that promotion, drop that pants size – that we will be successful, and if we are successful, we will be happy.
Over the last year (as of writing this) I have come to a life-changing conclusion, God (god) most certainly does not exist. I am an atheist. But, like many other non-believers I have no affinity to the label, I do not see why the non-belief in something needs any labelling.
The Japanese have two very beautiful philosophies that have intrigued me lately. Not the kind of ‘intrigued’ one becomes because of knowing something to be weird or absurd, but more because it isn’t.