A Man

Father Michael Landon aka Charles Ingalls

Someone I wanted to honor today is a man that
I always turn to when I need to find my center.
In my quest to find meaning the last few days, I
try to turn to to the touchstones in my life to show
me the way. One of those main people would be
Michael Landon aka Charles Ingalls.

Much like Michael's unhappy childhood which
I identified with through my years of physical
and verbal abuse he was determined through his
sheer will to leave a positive imprint on the world.

He admired Steve Reeves a famous American
bodybuilder and actor made famous for his role
in the Hercules movies to the point where he as
well started working out and growing his hair out.

It was Michael's character that mimicked his own
life and that of Charles Ingalls. Who was not only
the reason I started working out but to form who
I wanted as a father and for someone I wanted to
become. He radiated the sense of home and hearth.
Providing for his family no matter what, speaking
to his children not at them. He also had such a
bulldog perseverance against all of lifes adversity,
natural or man made. Demolishing the doubt.

A Man is a leader who brings all of his loved ones
together and not tear them down. He shows them the
way and is the strength and pillar for all to lean on.
He takes the worst the world throws at him to be
able to lighten the load for those he cares about most.
He knows that matters of the heart are of not just
about who may share his blood line. How he is thought
of and what he leaves behind is imperative.

A Man starves his ego to feed his soul because he
knows that all that matters in this world is his family.

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