My dear, If there’s a fear of falling, the only safety is deliberately jumping. Otherwise no matter how firm the ground you walk on you’ll always be looking down, scared that the ground will give away at any moment. The only way to conquer your fear is to embrace it, or else it embraces you, and conquers you. And when I say falling I really meaning everything else but. Falsely yours, Carl Gustav...

My dear, Stop asking your parents for permission to go join that risky and rebellious band that they see no prospects arising from, they won’t give it to you, just join it. Stop asking your bosses for permission to implement that new strategy that you know will bring in hundreds of new customers, they won’t give it to you, just take matters into your own hands. And stop asking your friends to leave you alone for just a bit so...

My dear, I don’t care about your talent, show me hard work. Show me getting up early every day, working all day, and sleeping late. Show me giving up outings with friends and partying to focus on work. Show me constant failure, and constant overcoming of that failure. Show me you, working hard. Hard work beats talent, when talent doesn’t work hard. Don’t show me just your talent. I don’t care about it alone. In this...

My dear, Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Choose a job you love and you’ll wake up every day before the alarm clock rings, excited to get going with the rest of the day… You’ll hardly notice the hours fly by. But, choose a job you hate and every day will feel like a life, like a lifetime, and at the end of each one you’ll feel like ending it. Falsely...

My dear, If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. And same goes if you keep saying things are going to be good. The point being that people only listen to the people who stand at extremes. Nobody ever pays attention to the woman saying that things will be bad, then good, ad infinitum. Nobody ever listens to the man who says that bad and good are relative terms and that they will of course...

My dear, I liken the modern college education to the snake in the Garden of Eden, a soothing slithering sort of thing that whispers to the listener that once they consume what it has to offer they have eternal knowledge and don’t need to learn and educate themselves further anymore. This is of course wrong. Many men with degrees have found themselves to be dumb and ignorant after college, and they’ve found themselves especially...

My dear, High school’s a lot like life after it isn’t it? You’ve got your cool kids, who do anything and everything to look cool, trying to run away from the realization that underneath it all they have little to show. You’ve got your geeks and book carriers, who are the exact opposite, underneath they have it all, but they’re too unsure of themselves to present it well to the public. You’ve got you...

My dear, When someone shoots another human being dead, they have taken life. This shouldn’t be made lighter by the fact that they did it as part of an army, a group, or better put – a gang. Killing under the cloak of war is no different than murder. …The thing I despise about war is that under all its propoganda, and nationalism, and patriotism, it’s blantanly saying that a human being has the right to take another...

My dear, Of 100 unsaved men, 1 will read the Bible; 99 will read the Christian. If you’re about goodness, don’t speak goodness and definitely don’t put the good book into people’s hands. No, most people don’t read or listen that often. If you’re about goodness and want others to replicate that goodness, then be good. That’s all. Actions speak louder than words (we weren’t wrong about...

My dear, We are human, we are emotional and we are swayed. We react to the days, sometimes positively, and most negatively. Our smiles come and go, our troubles come and go (though it does feel like they stay a while longer), and our loves come and go. The only thing for certain is that our god is here through it all, pushing us along and telling us we can keep walking (even if we think we can’t). Though our feelings come and go,...