When I was a kid growing up in the 1970s, there were certain things that were very important to me. Peanut butter and jam. A nap. Red Kool-Aid. Playing soccer in someone’s backyard. Pac Man. The Brady group. No, not the Brady gang. Marsha Brady. How deep is your love for the BeeGees. Well, pretty much every BeeGees song. Having my hair braided by my aunts. Peaches and herbs. Da-dit-doo-dinkle-da-dit-doo-doink – Leave it to Beaver. My mom’s fried chicken.

Speaking of the BeeGees, I woke up this morning with all kinds of emotions washing over me. There are certain responsibilities that I have as a husband and father and I feel like I don’t have enough time to fulfill all of them. My thoughts ran through my life this morning like an NFL quarterback running through his receiver progressions:

I’m not reading enough books to my daughter.

Am I answering your questions enough?

Next thing I know, she’s going to be married before I’m ready.

It’s growing too fast.

Will I die before I can give my wife everything she ever dreamed of?

I have to make sure I’m not like the dad from Cats In The Cradle.

That guy was probably the same kind of husband.

I have to leave a legacy for my family.

Who will carry out my mission?

Love is an emotion. Such is passion. Like anger and frustration. I’m glad we have emotions. Otherwise we would be robots. But you can believe what you saw in I, Robot and think that you might want to be a robot. They have on it. I like being human.

Emotions have power, good and bad. If emotions drive you to make positive changes, that’s a good power. If emotions motivate you to be negative and to do destructive things, with yourself and with others, that is bad power.

Who doesn’t need to make positive changes in their life? If we think more about how fast life goes by, it won’t be difficult. I will be 35 on my next birthday and I remember like it was yesterday thinking how I would look when I turned 17. I am on 10 years of marriage and it seems like only months have passed since I borrowed my mom’s car. for our first date.

We don’t have much time to get it right. We don’t have much time to get it. But I see it now. It’s not about having it all. It’s not about doing everything right. For me, it’s about doing everything I can and giving everything I can while I’m here to make sure the good power is passed on to everyone who saw my life.