#BigParentingIdea — A Plea To My Son
Fail me. Please do.
Because if you will, it will mean you’re doing your thing. Trying and failing, but doing your thing and doing it your way.
Because I’m not the one you’re doing it for. You’re doing it for yourself (and your spouse and children).
Because should you succeed at making me proud, it would mean that I was interfering way too much with your life. That I was trying to impose my understanding of success and happiness on you.
Because if I had some concrete idea for what would be good for you/ how you should live your life, I’d probably be dead wrong.
Because if you’d try to make me proud, you’d basically be guessing/ making things up.
We should always focus on our own expectations first and work toward a better understanding of our life choices. The expectations of others on the other hand, which by the way are almost never well thought out and at the same time always unwarranted, should never inform our decisions.
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