'Fathers' for All Seasons

'Fathers' for All Seasons
Written on Tuesday, September 25, 2012

They say success has many fathers whilst failure is an orphan, but be careful in accepting the fathering of those who orphaned your successful failures. 

Be wary of those wanting to father your current successes as they are prone to orphaning your failures instantaneously. 

Show appreciation and gratitude to those who fathered your failures as well as your successes; for they are the consistently conscientious and the only ones needed to weather any storm. 

This is to those who have stuck by you through the thick and thin, not the 'fair-weatherers', celebrate them as 'fathers' for all seasons. 

-M.B.O 
 2012©

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