Brian Johnson argues that rejecting parts of your past unravels your whole story. He shares his upbringing as the youngest of five in a Catholic family with an alcoholic parent, and urges you to say yes to your entire life so you can actually move forward.
If you say no to anything in your life you unravel the whole thing. So pay attention to what you might be rejecting in your narrative that you just don't want to look at or talk about or even try to make sense of. Do the hard work to craft that coherent narrative. Again I'm not discounting the challenge of that, but I also don't want to discount the importance of doing that and what a better day to think about it than on Father's Day. And it's never too late to have a decent childhood. Perfect. Look back, look at that and see that truth in the fact like for me not possible for me to be the human being I am without the childhood that I had being the youngest of five Catholic kids struggling with money, being the golden child for an alcoholic dysfunctional family I can't say no to that and say yes to the life that I have. Therefore let me say yes to it all and then do my best to take the next steps forward, etc.
