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Please stop telling boys that “Men Don’t Cry”. When you tell boys that it is not OK to cry, you are instead making them suppress their pain. You are encouraging the rhetoric, even if you don’t use the words, that it is OK for Men to get angry, but is not OK for them to…
What if we stopped doing good in the world? What if we instead focused on doing no harm? As I have seen more and more of the world, the truer the old adage “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” has turned out to be. I realize now that many people do as…
Love does not teach to hate. Learn the difference. If you hate another country to prove your love for yours, you are not patriotic, you are a nationalist. And that is as bad as some other “ist” words like facist, racist, etc. Patriotism is doing good for your country and fellow citizens out of love…
When I lived in the US, everything was “awesome” and “amazing” and “perfect” and “mind-blowing” and “incredible”. Or it was “awful”, “horrendous”, “criminal”, “terrible”, etc. “It’s fine” meant that one didn’t really like something. Even saying “it’s good” meant it wasn’t good enough for one’s standards. It took a stint in Europe to start tempering…
The Need to be Right controls us much more than we realize. It affects us many times a day, making a tiny argument bigger than it needed to be. Suddenly, we are arguing over what the right price of a product is with a shopkeeper. Or we are debating the right way to clean the…