Menfolk Journeys
This podcast explores how different men from all walks of life wear the beautiful and confusing mantle of manhood.
Men can be knuckleheads in public life. But in private, if given the right questions and if they feel comfortable, men can also be thoughtful, reflective, and have deep conversations about their lives, big questions, and meaningful ideas.
We have great conversations with men just like us and from all walks of life, so we can learn from their personal stories and all get better together.
Menfolk Journeys
3. Michael and Lives Within A Life
The Buddhist and Hindu (and other) precepts of multiple lives are well-known.
Whether you think that is a valid life perspective or not, and whether you think this is your only life and there isn’t another go-round, anyone I’ve met agrees that we have “multiple lives” within this life. I have a new life now than I did when I was in my 20s and even my 30s. I look at my life back then—the environment, the influences, the shape—and it’s very different from my life now.
I like the vocabulary of this idea. When people say they had a “life-changing event,” isn’t that exactly what they mean? They’re changing lives.
Don’t we all sometimes have that feeling? Don’t we all have different lives, where some core part of yourself carries through to the next, but we change?
My conversation with Michael is about being aware of these different lives and, perhaps, of even more.
