Life's Not Too Hard - You're Too Soft

Below is an excerpt from Bob Anderson's new book, Grandfather Speaks.

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Life is what it is, most times we don't get to shuffle the deck or cut the cards; we have to play the hand we're dealt. It is not what happens to you that is important, it is what you do about it or what you do with it.

The point is when it is time to do the hard things, the difficult things, the uncomfortable things the unpopular things - can you, will you?   Or would you let someone else be responsible for doing what you should do?

The job of a parent is not to help the child become a good person; it is to make that child a good enough person to make the grandchild a good person. Each man stands on the shoulders of the man that came before him.

Each man is responsible for the person that will follow. Our greatest responsibility is not to prepare our children to be good adults, strong and brave. Our greatest responsibility is to prepare them to teach our grandchildren to be good adults, strong and brave.

Today's social consciousness spreads the ideology that there is no right or wrong, it is because of circumstances. 

There is always an explanation or an excuse as to why someone behaves negatively.

Between excuses, political correctness and lazy parenting, there is no wonder the country is in a quandary.

Life is hard. From the moment of the first breath man must struggle. He must struggles against the elements. He struggles against his nature. He struggles against other men.

It is in this struggle that he becomes strong and productive.

By struggling he puts meaning to his existence. By struggling he shows his children the ways of the world and what victory and defeat look like.