GenrXr
Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
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Location: Houston
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 Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 6:13 pm Post subject: When my son is 14 he will climb Mt. Everest |
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When my son is 14 he will climb Mt. Everest
By the time my son is 14 there is no doubt I will be a man of no mark on the world. Being a person of dubious character and few principles, I need a legacy. My legacy will be father of youngest person to summit Everest! Oh how I love the sound of that. Besides, with the going rate paid by people of no character such as myself to Sherpa being approximately 2,500.00 per summit assist, I can hire three of the best Sherpa summiteers for 10k each no doubt. Two tickets purchased from Nepalese government to play on mountain will be 50,000.00 along with incidentals of 30,000.00 bring my purchase of a legacy to 110k. Holy cow and my kurumba, this is less than the cost of a crappy sail boat and I’m getting a much better picture to make people feel like little shrimp in the process. When people come into my office and talk of their children I will point to the 20”x30” picture of little 14 year old Johnny on top of the world and explain how my child climbed Everest. Oh I sense their feeling of insignificance and love it.
While reading the story of a 14 year old sailing across the Atlantic and being trailed 2 miles by his father a feeling of anger came over me. This kid is no more sailing across the Atlantic alone than the countless people who claim to summit Everest each year, actually summit it without Sherpa carrying them to the top. The kid has his father trailing him by 2 miles for crying out loud. If the kid is really as mature and capable of sailing as his mother says than allow him to sail it without his father in tow. To me this story is more about a father’s lack of a legacy and the lengths to which we will use our children in order to create one.
We coddle our children too much and to sail solo across the Atlantic at the age of 14 would be quite an accomplishment. If it were solo that is.
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