Fathers and Sons

When I was five, my father knew everything.

When I was fifteen, my father knew nothing.

When I was twenty five, I was amazed at how much my father had learned in ten years.

When I was thirty five, I realized my father had known these things all along. And I hoped that one day, I would be as wise.

Go on over to The Fixit Shop and read about a father and son, and all the emotions that each experience as one teaches the other how to be a man.

If you have a son, or if you’ve been a son, you’ll know exactly what this moment is like.