Revamp

I started thinking the other night that I might be going about this thing all wrong.  I mean really the whole essence of modern warriorship is the idea behind it.  You cannot really define modern warriorship or at least the definition must be very flexible.  I believe that I have been trying to paint a picture that fits every man... and that is not only wrong but simply impossible. Think about something as simple as shoes.  Sure we could all wear the same shoe and at some point in history there is a good chance that everyone did have the same shoe or sandal on with very little variation.  Now there are tons of different shoes, different colors, different styles, and even some that make your feet look like gorilla feet.  Shoes originated as something to protect feet especially on long journeys and now most of us have different shoes for different activities.  Shoes for work, shoes for play, and shoes for cool are all hanging out in our closets.  The funniest thing is that the shoes that I like and think look good are different than the shoes any of my friends or colleagues in the same demographic likes.

The same goes for ideology in certain areas of our lives.  I can have a completely different picture of what warriorship means to me than other men even of like mind.  As with shoes at one point in history warriorship did not differ much from man to man.  You hunted to provide for your family and you fought to protect them, that simple.  Now we have the world at our fingertips and enough ideas streaming through our mind that we become confused and disillusioned.

So to revamp this blog and more importantly this ideology, that is hopefully on the verge of catching on, let’s not put borders around the idea of modern warriorship.  We cannot define warriorship specifically for a nonspecific being such as "man".  We must let the definition fall with the holder of the idea.  Each of us must seek to define warriorship in our lives.  That is what I want this to become and that is what I want to seek in my own life.  The things that we are passionate about that take no regard for money but are something that makes us better as individuals and therefore translates into making the world around us better is what I see now as modern warriorship.  That is what I want to find in my life and what I want to help you seek.  This doesn't mean you have to change careers but it does mean that we should be actively pursuing our passions with the idea of warriorship (read excellence) in everything that we do.

I know this that at the end of the day I must provide for my family but why does that mean that I must squelch my dreams?  Let them become something that goes hand in hand, why not?

Let’s hear your passions... scream them to the heavens!

Do you like to bake cakes then do so with fervor?  Computer programming is the world that you love to rock then rock it.  You like the idea of manufacturing then manufacture like a beast.  Take your passion and love and turn it into your area of warriorship.

We spend far too much time in our careers to not enjoy them at least a little.

In the coming weeks I will, hopefully with some discussion from the community, start to lay the foundation for warriorship.  I hope to throw out some principles that will guide each of us on our quest for becoming a warrior in our own way in our own worlds. Not the definition but some guidelines so that we can all reach our own definition.  I will start with one off the top of my head and you cannot be a great father or husband if you are not this most of the time.