Comments on: Introspection, Lessons and the Way Forward

By: Stan Faryna

Stan Faryna — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:43:50 +0000

I hope so, Scott. I hope so. I hope it will mean as much to Johnny as it means to me.

I don’t have awesome memories of my father- though I search my soul for them. My parents separated when I was ten-ish. And I didn’t see much of my father after my teens. Less times than I can count on my hands. Admittedly, I am partly to blame for that.

By: scott_elumn8

scott_elumn8 — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:27:36 +0000

As a divorced dad with a teenage son I love dearly and who I see not nearly as much as I would like. And as the son of divorced parents who never knew the joy of squirt guns with dad. Thanks for sharing your story. These things mean more than you know.

By: Stan Faryna

Stan Faryna — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 08:51:05 +0000

True that, Jack. Some lessons will take one or more lifetimes. [grin] The very problematic of the “more” aspect is a troublesome conundrum in itself.

By: TheJackB

TheJackB — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 06:55:59 +0000

The question I ask myself is whether I learn from my mistakes or keep repeating them. Sometimes I wonder, but I can guarantee that I try to do better so there is that.

Sometimes it is all we can do.

By: Stan Faryna

Stan Faryna — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:11:26 +0000

Thanks for your encouragement, Bill. And you keep on keeping on – yourself! Sometimes, that is what the next 10,000 steps are all about.

By: Bill Dorman (@bdorman264)

Bill Dorman (@bdorman264) — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:16:21 +0000

The only way we learn seems to be the ‘hard’ way, but sometimes it’s that way, that gets our attention. You want to ‘protect’ your kids but they have to be able to scrape their knees, get bit by ants, put their hand on a hot stove, to learn some of these ‘life’ lessons.

You just hope you can lead good enough and teach the right ‘core’ values and let them grow up and figure it out from there without too much pain and heartache.

Thanks for the mention; hope you are surviving sir…….