What I mean by this is: 'Be the best person you can be."
In my own case being in love with someone and wanting to help take care them elevated me from where I was as a 25 year old the most. I had to completely change the way I did things when I got my girlfriend pregnant and we decided to get married. We got married a month before my son was born then in 1974 in the Spring. This whole thing elevated me from who I was before which was sort of someone who went to college and had a lot of girlfriends and who took a lot of risks like Rock climbing with thousands of feet exposure, flying Gliders with me as the pilot, Flying planes, riding motorcycles across the desert up dry washes, flying across the desert in dune buggies and getting stuck in wet dry washes sometimes with VW bug modified dune buggies for extra rear wheel traction.
One of the things I had to do was to drop out of college and get a full time job and my then young wife also worked until she was about 7 or 8 months pregnant before my son was born.
So, I went from a college student trying to become a psychologist to a full time worker supporting my wife and son. And this was a very hard adjustment for me at the time because I was used to having almost complete freedom in many ways in my life.
However, looking back this all was likely the best thing that ever happened to me at that point in my life.
I'm not someone who does well just taking care of myself because I tended then to become too self destructive in my risk taking. So, one of the reasons I survived to 30 is getting married and having a son.
The point here being. Be the best person you can be so everyone around you can better survive their lives too.
By God's Grace
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