Money is nice to have in this world. But your real inheritance is your upbringing, as any living thing initially accepts the world that is put in front them. Later, they might start asking questions. It is important that they are shaped to do so. They mostly build on past experiences of others, like teachers, parents and indeed family and friends. This ensures that behaviour, that is counter productive, gets weeded out of the human DNA that is passed on. This is a sound practice, that involves a keen sense of understanding of what you are part of. Not necessarily on a scientific or existential level - but on a grounded one - so you do not tip over at the first gust of wind. People today are not stressed out because they are worked too hard, they are stressed out because they have no inner compass and therefore no sense of place or being. That makes it impossible to ‘rest’ in reality, and they flee into their phones.
We are a drone race of individuals, and hurt can be passed on for generations. It only takes one bad parent to start another chain of ignorance or violence - or, indeed, both. The responsibility we have as parents, teachers and mentors is as immense as it is beautiful. It is a massive undertaking being human. Most take it too lightly.
Yes, this is about my dad - I will get to my mom in another article. Because, they are the sum of my parts, and I know others have excellent parents as well. That is my biggest wish for anyone alive, to have incredible parents. It would solve a lot on this rock. My dad’s a mensch. No wonder, because so was his dad - whom, was my best friend growing up. None of us really ever recovered from his death - not me, neither my mom or dad. He passed on at the age of 78. My dad has a lot of the same personality - with add ons. Picking up a role or a talent, and then learning it, is something I have from him. My respect for the fairer sex was not just instilled in me by my mom, but just as much by my dad. But we both think that men and women should be just that - men and women. Which is why, in this day and age, I just stay away from women - they are as nuts as men. Another lesson learned.
Males have an incredible responsebility that we will not lift by cow towing to women, nor treating them like shit, or indeed, not as equals. The male role model, with empathetic values, but a sound idea of ‘enough is enough’, is needed more than ever. But the real man seems to be trapped between the hormonally crazed neo-yuppie and the metrosexual loser we see all over modernity. Hipsters, flanked by men in stumpy suits, because some wankstain in Paris told them it was ‘in’. Or they sleep outside a retail store to get the 5th season of Yeezy’s foul design. These are not men, they are an advertisement for someone else’s idea of making money. We don’t need any of these types of men - we need compassion, leadership and intelligence in modern man - and it is lacking in most.