Which Will It Be?

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Society & Culture, Dads, Relationships, Parenting, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Ryan Holiday, Wisdom, Education, Fatherhood

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🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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“In his Broadway show, Bruce Springsteen—whose songs have often focused on the painful legacy of our parents—explained the choice that all of us have as fathers. “We are ghosts or we are ancestors in our children's lives,” he said at the beginning of Long Time Comin’. “We either lay our mistakes, our burdens upon them, and we haunt them, or we assist them in laying those old burdens down, and we free them from the chain of our own flawed behavior. And as ancestors, we walk alongside of them, and we assist them in finding their own way, and some transcendence.”

Learn how you can be an ancestor, and not a ghost to your children, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you
0:12.3	with your most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy,
0:17.7	by practical wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world.
0:22.8	Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.
0:31.3	Which will it be?
0:33.2	In his Broadway show, Bruce Springsteen, whose songs have focused on the painful legacy of our parents,
0:39.0	explain the choice that each of us has as parents. We are ghosts or we are ancestors in our
0:45.6	children's lives, he said at the beginning of long time coming. We either lay our mistakes,
0:51.4	our burdens upon them, and we haunt them, or we assist them in laying
0:55.6	those old burdens down. We free them from the chain of our own flawed behavior. And as ancestors,
1:01.6	we walk alongside them, and we assist them in finding their own way and some transcendence.
1:08.1	Will you be a ghost or an ancestor to your children? Isn't it beautifully put? Will you
1:13.7	haunt them or guide them? Will you inspire them or curse them? Of course we all know which one of those
1:19.7	things we want to be. The struggle is in rising above our own demons, our own issues, the ghosts of our
1:26.9	own parents. But that's why we do this work. That's
1:29.7	why we go to therapy and read books. It's why we stay up at night before bed talking to our spouse
1:34.5	about how hard this parenting thing is. It's why we ask our kids, how are you doing? Do you need
1:39.5	anything? Can I get you anything? It's why wordlessly we hold them and we promise ourselves to do better
1:45.5	to try harder to not repeat the mistakes we saw growing up. This isn't going to be easy. We're
1:50.7	not going to be perfect, but we're going to keep trying. We're going to be an ancestor,
1:55.6	someone who guides them. We're not going to be a ghost.
2:00.1	A new year is here.
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