Why is it sad to lose your Dad?

I recently lost mine. I cannot help to explain why I ask this question. This is not something you can just avoid thinking about. As any man is supposed to, he must deal with it.

The world is full of good men, but to find one exactly like your father is as difficult as finding a different planet with intelligent life. And as much as we mustn´t consume ourselves asking why we have not found intelligent life in the universe, we mustn´t wonder why, but more importantly for what?

It is sad to lose someone that understands you so well. How can there be a reason for something that is as common as a blue sky on a summer morning. The atmosphere is composed, in rough numbers, by 78% Nitrogen and 21% Oxygen. Light may travel as a wave or a particle. Sound, on the other hand, travels as a wave of vibrating air. They are both electromagnetic fields. Electromagnetic waves travel through space at 299,792 km/sec (186,282 miles/sec). And this is called the speed of light.

Light is a part of an electromagnetic spectrum we are capable of perceiving with the optical faculties we have been blessed with. Light from the sun may look white, but actually it is mixture of many colors. Colors may be described empirically as a variation of wavelength. As light moves through the atmosphere, it depends on its wavelength and the size of the things it hits.

The blue color of the sky is due to a concept described by an English physicist called John Rayleigh. This concept, which we will call the Rayleigh Scattering, refers to the process by which light moves through the atmosphere and most of the longer wavelengths of color pass through and the shortest is absorbed by the particles of nitrogen and oxygen. Long wavelength colors include red, orange and yellow. Shorter wavelength colors are blue and purple hence the reason the sky is blue. If you were out in space, or on the moon, the sun would look white because there is no atmosphere to scatter the sun´s light.

And now I ask again for what? If it weren´t for him, I would have never asked myself the question of why the sky is blue. I would have not become the man I am today and this blog would never exist to inspire the minds of the few who grasp it for its glimpses of rationality.

I am sad because I am human and I feel. Feeling is what makes us such a unique entity in the universe and we should never wish to waiver this resource. Embrace the feeling. Embrace the fact that you are here to make a difference, not because you have to, but because you should.
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Happiness and Time Dilation Through Awe

Every human at some point in their existence experiences for the first time the consuming effects of absolute admiration. Let it be the delicate sway of the feminine figure, a raindrop slowly making it´s way through the leaves of a dense tree, or for that matter the grandiosity of the Pyramids in Giza.

Recent studies in the University of Stanford and the University of Minnesota, have finally paid attention to what the actual effects of being in awe have on our self. It was found through three different experiments, that when participants developed this sense of admiration, they were much more patient, less materialistic, and felt as if they had more time available.

When you are overwhelmed with awe. Nothing else matters. Every breath you take seems everlasting. Slowly you descend into a state of complete and utter delectation. It is actually only through awe that we stop thinking about the past or future. We think about what we have in front of us, at present. With this, our perception of time is ultimately altered. We are finally living up to the age-old adage of Carpe Diem.

Most of us take for granted what we find ordinary in waking life. The complexion of most that we consider ordinary is far more intricate than we could ever imagine. I am not saying that if we are constantly expressing our explicit reverance for all that we encounter in life will we be happier and with a better sense of wholeness. What I am saying is that we should not take it for granted because life usually has a lot more to offer than we are able to realize.

At The Perfect Male Blog, we not only seek men who are capable to have succesful relationships, lives, and good ideas. We also seek for men to realize that happiness is something that is always within a blink of an eye, and that is something most spend an entire lifetime trying to figure out. With that I leave you with a quote from one of my favorite authors, Bertrand Russel.

"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good."

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