[quote]Rockscar wrote:
Go heavy fool wrote:
Rockscar wrote:
What prompted this? What makes you think I live a boring and mundane life?
Even more, if I have children, it’s my responsibility to make sure I’m there for them. That’s far from mundane. If I chose to consistantly put my life in danger for a thrill, then I’m irresponsible to my loved ones.
Living on the edge to satisfy your own needs above those of your kids is just wrong.
You have no frame of reference on this one.
While I’m not saying he deserved it, I was saying that he should have put his family and living for them above all things. One way to ensure that would be to get away from playing with death.
This is no different than a hard core drug user continuing to get high for the thrill of it. Is it not?
Let me see if i can make sense of this for you Rockscar… probably not, but I’ll give it a try.
You say his number one objective should have been to put his family above all other things. O.K. sounds good to me. I believed he did that. He died at 44… his family has 44 years of memories and instruction on how to go about living your life. most of his is even on videotape.
He tought his son and daughter more in the very few years that they knew him… than most dads will be able to do in an entire lifetime. He tought them how to love, how to protect, how to give back to society, how to save lives, how to be a savior for wildlife, how to be a decent human being, how to be a man, how to live life with enthusiasm and vigor.
Sure, all parents should do this. This does not justify anything. You are saying that he then could do whatever the hell he wanted because he taught his children as you describe above?
the main protection he provided was how to live your life to the fullest and give every ounce of your heart to it… these are lessons that can’t be tought by the living no matter how hard a deadbeat loser dad tries… especially when he sits on the sofa and stuffs his face and never shows his children the meaning and the purpose of life. Steve was larger than life and he paved the way for his children to follow in his footsteps.
This guy will teach and protect his kids from ignorance of society more by being a deceased father than will 99% of the living ones. His legacy and lifelong lessons will live forever. How many people can say that about their own lives or their fathers.
You put this guy too high on a pedestool. 99%??? C’mon now.
My dad still comes home from work everyday and does nothing to better himself or society. Steve has endless video of how to be a man and how a real man lives his life and loves life to the fullest… watch this man work just one time and its all the protection you’ll ever need… that is protection my friend.
Watching a father wrestle crocs is protection? That’s this biggest croc of shit I’ve ever heard.
When a dead man can protect you far more from the evils of life than an alive one can… I’d say he gave his children all the protection they will ever need.
I can go over to my dads house right now and there is nothing he will do or say that will surpass the humanity of the way Steve lived his life. I’d be proud to have Steve as my father for just one day, I could learn so much from his passion that that’s all the protection i would ever need… the memories and lessons would last for a lifetime.
You don’t think he’s protecting his children now because he has passed… I beg to differ and I think his children will always be safe being lucky enough to have him for a dad and being able to see the legacy of this man everyday… the on screen legacy of someone they once called daddy.
No videotape will protect his kids. You also make a lot of assumptions about how he lived his life with his kids. Did you know him?
Do you think his kids would rather see vids of him, or have him around? The kids are so young, their memories will mostly be from videotape. Sad really.
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Rockscar I would have been better off having a father like Steve for 6 minutes, rather than my own father who tought me abosolutely nothing in 60 years.
I understand your point… I really do. But just being there isn’t enough. It’s what you do when you are there that means everything in the world. I would trade my dads success, money, and everything he thought he was for a real father. A real father knows how to love and sacrafice… even if it means your own life for the benefit of others. In this case Steve benefited not only humans but many wildlife as well.
Now thats putting in some quality time.
If you wanna sacrafice “quality” for “quantity”… go right ahead. But I’ll tell you this much, I’d take a man of integrity and honor for a short while over a liftime deuchebag. Most fathers of today are the latter. Most men have no idea what it means to be a father… and the biggest repsponsibility a father has is to lead by example and show his children the way. Just being alive isn’t going to guarentee any kind of protection for your children. It should, but it doesn’t. Any dickface loser can be a dad, but it takes a real man to be a father. Not many men will ever know how to do this unless you’ve had one. How can you teach your son or daughter to be a man or a woman if they never known one?
I hope you’re a good father Rockscar, because its the most important job you will ever have. You still have time to accomplish that if you havn’t already. You will know when you children are grown and see the persons they have become.