Warriorship – the practice of being a warrior. This blogs focus is going to be about my life and the pursuit of living like a warrior. You might ask… so you are going to walk around with a sword and fight evil? That would be sweet but no it is more the idea of living like a warrior and adopting the ideals of a warrior. In many societies the warriors were part of their own specialized class which was easily recognized by normal civilians. This is important because I would love to live in a way that people could look at me and say; man that dude is different for all the right reasons. Most warrior societies had a code or ethos that they lived by. The warrior society valued honor, faithfulness, and courage and were not corrupt so that they were not dangerous to normal society. Samurai had the code of Bushido (the way of the warrior) for medieval knights it was the laws of chivalry and the list goes on with the same basic principles in place.
It is the warrior’s approach to life that I want to mimic. I want to approach everything with honor. I want to have courage to try new things that will add depth to my life and to cutout the things that are negative and take away. I want to be faithful to the things that I believe to be important and worthy. From my spiritual life to the times that I unwind and everything in between I want to approach it all with the idea of warriorship fresh on my mind.
In the upcoming months I will write about the journey I am currently on chasing after a new career, about my training that I am doing to get my body in the right shape, the things that I put into my mind and the conversations that these ideas lead to, and most importantly I will talk about being a husband and a father with a new approach. I can guarantee there will be things that you can laugh at and learn from. I am going to work diligently at pursuing things out of my comfort and I hope through some of the feedback from you the reader I will be able to look at things from different perspectives.
I will take a deeper look at what being a warrior today could/should look like compared to some of the examples from history. It should be a fun ride and I hope that you will stick around and check back often.