I understand being softhearted now in ways I didn’t as a younger man. It’s akin to eating unseasoned food, like a steak, when young. Then life adds seasoning, with failure, loss, heartbreak, success, love, and appreciation, and the definition of a soft heart takes on a clarity that is both dramatic and pleasantly surprising. One day you realize precisely what “sweet pain” means.
Month: April 2025
Lifetime Companions
If I had my way, dogs would live as long as humans, so they and those who love them might never be separated.
Existing in a Real World
When you are sensitive, attentive, analytic, and logical, you likely live in a personal mini-hell. Allowing oneself to care means the observational data is presented to your heart and mind in equal measure. Mix in the mistake generator that runs in our background, and we have this incessant analytical process that weighs whether we care selfishly or unselfishly, when that changes, and when it matters. Relax.
That means you aren’t a monster.
Approaching Zero 