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I tell ya what, my Wednesday morning this week was tight as hell. I had to run a workout in the middle of my city at 5:30am, then I had to get that done, get coffee with my friend from the workout, and get to a Men’s Breakfast at 7am. I was gassed ultimately. But, you know, I try to keep moving and generally be a good person, so in that vein all of it fit together. I was only about eight minutes late to the Men’s Breakfast, too.
As you can tell from the title “Men’s Breakfast,” it was a bunch of dudes sitting around discussing a topic, led by a pastor. This time it was about hobbies, which is pretty cool. Men have this tendency, which I wanted to call a “weird tendency” but it’s not, to focus almost entirely on career and family. I like to believe career provides the money side and the relevance and the success trappings, and family hopefully provides the beauty and the joy but admittedly also some of the relevance and success trappings. It should be a nice little balance/dance, but a lot of guys lean pretty hard towards the career side and offload the family side to the woman or partner. In the process of all this happening, what you tend to see from guys is a drop in (a) male relationships and (b) hobbies. I’ve covered off on the male friendship thing roughly 14,000 times as a writer. So I’ll spare you that stuff, but let’s discuss…
