This hit home. Our kids don’t need smaller versions of us, they need to see what “fully alive” looks like. The apology becomes a promise when we start living it.
This is not a post it’s a reckoning whispered through love. Geoff’s apology isn’t weakness; it’s the courage to unlearn silence. He speaks for every parent who mistook self-erasure for devotion, who shrank so their children might stretch. But children don’t need shadows they need light. His words tremble with regret, but also with renewal: the promise to live fully, not just survive. To show his children that dreams aren’t selfish they’re sacred. That ambition, when rooted in love, becomes legacy. This is a father choosing aliveness over martyrdom. And in doing so, he teaches the most vital lesson of all: that joy is not a betrayal of duty it’s its deepest fulfilment.
This hit home. Our kids don’t need smaller versions of us, they need to see what “fully alive” looks like. The apology becomes a promise when we start living it.
Thank you 🙏🏾 Christopher
This is not a post it’s a reckoning whispered through love. Geoff’s apology isn’t weakness; it’s the courage to unlearn silence. He speaks for every parent who mistook self-erasure for devotion, who shrank so their children might stretch. But children don’t need shadows they need light. His words tremble with regret, but also with renewal: the promise to live fully, not just survive. To show his children that dreams aren’t selfish they’re sacred. That ambition, when rooted in love, becomes legacy. This is a father choosing aliveness over martyrdom. And in doing so, he teaches the most vital lesson of all: that joy is not a betrayal of duty it’s its deepest fulfilment.
Yes, the life of ambition let not be dull of so much hard work, in that you avoids the real beauty such as helping home?