Woodward Thinks – Memoirs of a Dreamer

There is a quote that I have often chuckled at in life:

“I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
~ William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

I find it funny, because it is true in an odd way, but I also find it insulting, what kind of a man would I be if I sacrificed the needs of my family for my personal ambition.

The older I get, the more I realize there is a balance in life that you achieve as your passions become grounded and the joints of the scale do not react as quickly to shifting weights. Like the rings of a tree trunk expanding with age, becoming ever more stable so that the wind no longer budges it as the realization it will never reach the sun is accepted.

I am happy with what I have become and I now look around me rather than just looking up.