Authority used to be a bad word, but it’s gotten better
Once when I was 29, my mother asked me if I perhaps I would benefit from a mentoring relationship with an older man. I brushed her off, not really considering it until my life fell apart four years later and I was desperate for guidance.
In part I dismissed my mom’s probing question because I’d never had a great example of authority and mostly had seen it abused. A few years later, when my world had come apart, I knew I was a mess and needed guidance to find my way to sanity again.
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this is something I’m learning and think is so true! good post dad.
thanks, kiddo! I try not to exercise it too much w/ you!