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Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast, where we provide one lesson every single day to help you with your most important job, being a parent. I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons

from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from parents just like you

all over the world. Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. Kiss it while it's here.

The thing about having kids is that it's so fleeting.

They grow up so fast, as we've said before.

They are in a constant process of leaving you, leaving who they were.

And scarier still, as the last few years have shown, life is unpredictable and even tragic.

No one is here forever. Things can change in a tragic

instant. So what do we do? Certainly not try to grip everything so tight, saying to fate

or fortune that they'll have to pry our happiness from our cold dead fingers. In fact, we

should do the opposite. We should let go a little bit. William Blake wrote beautifully of the infinite

of the present moment many times, but he best expressed this idea in his poem, Eternity.

He who binds to himself a joy, does the winged life destroy? He who kisses the joy as it flies,

lives in eternity's sunrise. As we've said before, the fact that you have your family, this moment, that's a wonderful gift.

The fact that you've had this for some time, that's something that can't ever go away.

So be grateful.

In fact, be more gracious about what may happen in the future because you're already so full of appreciation for what you did get the fact that you were lucky enough to have it all for the time that you did. Yes, it's terrifying

with something that anything could happen to the people you love. Let us hope that never happens.

But in the meantime, let's appreciate the gifts we've had that we've had. Let us accept

everything good or bad that comes after as

extra because it is. This show is sponsored by Better Help.

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