“I still dream of dad…”

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When one peruses my oeuvre – or even a simple majority of it, it’s easily noticed I harp continuously on two themes:

 

1} That a man learn to love and respect who he is, once he discovers and begins developing such.

 

2} That a man finds a mission, then pursues it.

 

Of course, there are many posts about women, relating to them and building relationships with them.

 

After all, that’s a tremendous (and necessary) part of being a man.

 

Yet even those are couched in the context of his satisfaction (Note: I did not say “happiness”) in life.

 

 

 

Why do I do so?

 

Because as time and tide go onward, more and more will fade.

 

Friends.

 

Jobs.

 

Fame.

 

Although men may have a longer “shelf life” than women, that, too, slowly disappears.

 

Or leaves men with a less than ideal pool of prospects, to say the best.

 

 

 

Lamentably, too many in our corner ► fall to nihilism ◄ when such is brought to their attention.

 

Prompting the question:

 

“What’s the point, then?”

 

 

 

I confess, countless men have attempted to answer the question.

 

Rarely to a satisfactory degree.

 

Therefore, I won’t bother.

 

Instead, I’ll posit my own question:

 

What’s the point of squandering the time we’re given?

 

Innumerable men whose names have faded “as the green of grass” gave us cathedrals.

 

Cobblestone streets.

 

Beautiful poems.

 

Heart-wrenching songs.

 

In my view, paradoxically, they did those things precisely so they would not die.

 

No one remembers the hedonist or bon vivant.

 

The deaths of such men are permanent and everlasting.

 

(Realize, even the die-hard PUA’s our corner has produced will be, if so fortunate, remembered for their writings rather than notch count.)

 

 

 

So if you’re fortunate to live long enough, you’ll learn the Truth in the long-deceased Peter Steel’s terse though poignant phrase:

 

“Everything dies”.

 

But you’ll also Truly understand the meaning of another, even older maxim:

 

“Carpe Diem”.

 

 

 

 

 

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