Own It

There is a moment in every man's life when he stands at a fork. One path leads to explanation. The other to ownership. Most choose explanation because it is softer, because it preserves the ego, because it lets him sleep at night with the comforting lie that the world did this to him. The other path is harder. It requires you to look at the wreckage of your life — the business that failed, the marriage that crumbled, the body that betrayed you, the years that slipped through your fingers — and say four words that most men will never say. I did this. All of it.