If I could pick one image to describe how this past season has been for me, this would be it.
Cloudy, cold, unclear, and filled with an unbelievable number stop signs
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It seems that everywhere I look these days, I come across people who are angry.
Not like, irritated angry, but deep-down-inside angry.
The kind of anger that surfaces when things aren’t going quite right, when we’re downright sick and tired of how things are—that kind of anger that arises out of discontentment of the soul.
I see it in our presidential election, I see it on social media, in the news, in my friends, and in my own personal relationships.
So I have to ask: Why?
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To My Dear Boys,
It’s a different world than the one I grew up in. A very different world.
In some ways, it’s a much better world. But in a lot of ways things are pretty rough. Hatred abounds, whether between the sexes, between nations, between ideologies, between races. It’s everywhere, boys. It plays out on social media, on the news, and in classrooms and playgrounds.
Avoid hatred at all costs, sons. It is everywhere, but it doesn’t have to be inside of you.
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For most of my life, I’ve felt like a pretty emotionally stable bloke. But lately, it seems my days are bookended by feelings of anxiety at night followed by moods of depression in the mornings.
There are a variety of reasons for these emotions, but most of them are related to my continued realization that life (at least the good stuff) is really tough. That in order to live a full life, there are things I have to face head-on and fight each and every day.
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I don’t know if you’re like me at all in this, but any time we have designated time set aside for a family trip, I allow my expectations to get the better of me.
For example, before we ever leave, I set in my mind a certain agenda that needs to be followed. Not a traditional agenda, mind you, where certain appointments need to be kept, but an emotional agenda that looks something like this:
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