Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being ~Plato

I love innovation, but good things also have a price.

Another reason for the regression of manhood is the removal of the physical nature of life.

Writing this, I just bought a house. I can remember when my folks bought their first house. I was 5, filled with piss and vinegar, and completely ignorant to what was going on around me. As long as there was trouble to be had, I was in it, a sport to be played, I was doing it.

I didn’t appreciate what my old man was doing nor the man that he was.

He knew nothing about building or handy work or carpentry, yet, the house needed a new deck, a new bathroom, and a heck of a lot of touch up. My folks, however, didn’t have the funds to do any of it, so my old man literally bought “plumbing for dummies” and went to work on the washroom. He did the same for the deck.

He took matters into his own hands and relied on his brain rather than his wallet to get the job done, and the job was done. (Read This: The Death of Self-Reliance)

Owning my own house and my own business, my time is given to my business and the returns are given back. It doesn’t make financial sense for me to spend hours on a bathroom or on the deck or painting the rooms or building shelves, but the pride and the satisfaction that men get from working with their hands cannot be matched by typing with the fingers.

It isn’t always about economics.

Sometimes it’s about value and about doing what we’re here to do.

As technology has risen, the physicality that made good men great men, tough men, and gritty men, has been gone. (Read This: How to Be Grittier)

This isn’t to lament. I love my heated rooms, my truck, my fridge and my stove. In past times things weren’t so easy, and thus, the men were tougher. But just because you have the option of ease it does not mean you should take it.