Fatherhood

I hit a milestone recently, my oldest son turned 20.

Today I hit another.

He just beat me arm-wrestling (this is the part where I cope a bit) I am right handed, and so is he. I used my left hand because I am developing a chronic tendonitis in my right arm (not cope). We came to a tie, well I submitted first (more cope). He won. My son is strong, because I am stronger than most men, but I am not as strong as I was at 20 (which was legendary. I am an old gym rat). He is objectively strong. He is a better man than I was at his age. Mission accomplished: I am blessed.

Then I saw something on Twitter that just did not sit well with me. There really isn't any point into going into all of the details, but it made me realize one thing; and it subsequently inspired this post.

This is a Big Red Pill

I was fortunate enough to have a good dad. He did his best, truthfully. When I became a father, I also did my best. My kids are getting to the age where I can see the outcomes of the sacrifice and investment I have made into them. This has been indescribably rewarding, truly money cannot buy this. There are too many sons who do not experience this. We have an epidemic of fatherlessness.

Dont come at me with race. I work in healthcare, I take care of everyone. I know extremely devoted fathers from every race. This isn't about race. This is about there aren't enough men taking care of their children and the effects it is having on society. The real pandemic is fatherlessness.

I am a solutions oriented man. We can't go back in time, and everyone already knows how we got here. Time to stop playing these games of distraction. The solution is mentorship. It is literally the second best thing we can do to quite literally save civilization.

The damage that fatherlessness causes is indescribably bad. There is as much mental illness as there is criminal behavior (and these two overlap). This is from fatherless homes.

What to do?

It is clear that change has to start with me. I am going to use whatever voice I have to mentor, this is a part of what I will be covering here. There is no catch, I just want to tell my stories. Hopefully they can help people. I know that the manosphere definitely helped me raise my children better, it filled the gaps that my admittedly great dad missed. We start here gentlemen.

Until next time, Jack.

NFT art is Explorer #51 from the Sigle collection.