Hey Kids,
Listen up, I'm about to drop knowledge. No, not really. If you know me you probably laughed at that. The lessons I have to teach are not grand wisdom but practical things I've learned by doing the opposite. So how did I come up with this idea? First, it has nothing to do with the fact that I've watched two whole seasons of How I Met Your Mother in the past week. The idea actually came to me in the shower.
I'll backtrack. In what sounds horrible but was actually a pretty funny moment,my sister reminded my Mom that our father was dead and therefore couldn't have taught me not to mix liquors while at cocktail parties. Thankfully, there were no embarrassing lessons to be taught involving alcohol in this instance but there very well could have been. Now, my father died when I was 20, before I was legally allowed to drink, so he saw no need to teach me that particular lesson.
If you kids are anything like me, you probably won't even read this, and if you do, you will probably think you have to make the same mistakes I did to learn but if you're nothing like me, that is wise, you will take this advice. Which brings me back to the shower, where I thought up this idea and lesson number one...
#1: Learn very quickly how to take cold showers. There is almost nothing that's quite as nice as a long, hot shower after a good game of football/rugby/whatever, however it stands to reason that sometimes you will not have access to hot water. There might always be a shower nearby but I guarantee they will not always be hot. I was foolish, I realized during this particular hot shower, because I only take hot showers. In the summer when it is 95 degrees I take warm showers. If you teach yourself at a young age to stand cold water you will be able to shower so many more places, and you will be able to jump in the pool no problem and won't be mocked at age 25 for slowly easing into the water as you "get acclimated."
Sincerely,
Your Dad
