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Am I The Father I Ought To Be?

July 27, 2005 by Jack Steiner

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This is a question I ask myself. Am I the father I ought to be. Do I give my children all that I can. Most of the time I feel pretty good about it, but there are moments where I feel like I am falling short of the mark.

Sometimes I look at myself and I wonder how my father did it. I only have two children and he had four. For years he took care of all of us and he did it with an exceptional work ethic. Do I work as hard for my family as he did for us/

Sometimes I wonder.

Am I giving myself enough credit. Am I giving him too much credit.

Sometimes I wonder.

My gut tells me that if you do not worry about this, if you do not spend a few minutes of your life worried about how you are doing then there is a big problem. It doesn’t matter if you are a billionaire or poor, there are some things that money cannot buy.

And there are times when you try to do the right thing and somehow you end up feeling badly about it. Fortunately there haven’t been too many of these, but the few moments I have had in which I walked away feeling badly were horrible.

In the end I follow my father and grandfather’s advice to do the best that I can. I try to live in a way that lets me sleep at night, but sometimes my best just doesn’t feel like it is enough. Oy.

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