Live Life With No Regrets!

If we limit our growth to only what we see in our parents, the world cannot become a better place.

We must become better than what we see demonstrated in their lives.

For some, it can seem quite a daunting task if your father is Michael Schumacher or Michael Jordan.

But that is only one aspect, i.e. career wise. What I mean is character growth wise.

If our parents are crabby and complaining we must be positive and gracious. If they are negative we must be positive.

If they are lazy, we must be hardworking.

If the children of the world only aspire to be like their parents, they world would not become better.

Unfortunately, there is a problem here. A lot of parents want their children to be made in their own image and be the extensions of their egos. A pygmalion project perhaps. But how many parents have ever said to their children, "please become better than me, kinder, gentler, stronger, wiser."

Perhaps, if they were to say that, it would be admitting their own shortcomings. And humans do not like seeing their shortcomings highlighted.

I want to become better, and better than the person I was yesterday. I also want to tell my children to be better heights than me, to become better than I am, to receive a double portion of what I received.

But in the meantime, before I do have children of my own, I'll make sure I'll become a tough challenge to follow.