Turned on TV, saw a gymnast doing his routine. Told my boy, “See, this man is strong!” Boy said, “Daddy!” Told him, “No, this man is much stronger. Daddy is not as strong as him.” Boy protested, “No! Daddy is strong!!!”
That’s what a 3.5 year old thinks about his dad. His dad is the strongest – nobody else is stronger. Of course we need not go all out to prove to our kids that we are the strongest.
But whatever that is within our capability to do, we must do. Sadhguru says. if what we can do, we do not do, we are not a success. What we cannot do, we need not do, for we are not a failure for not doing that which we cannot do.
Abraham Maslow, “What a man can be, he must be.”
I strongly agree. How else can we find fulfilment? It is the man in the mirror we are most accountable for and the only man we cannot fool, no matter how many people we are able to fool – for a limited while, at best!
