Your son will be better than you
at everything that matters. He will be handsomer, stronger, faster, and smarter.
Try to be better at one thing. Try trap shooting. If he beat you at that, fall back to golf.
Love your in-laws
Never say that it's more fun to not have them around.
Even if it's true.
Functional clothing
Men are drawn to functional things: chronographs, Leathermen, Goretex.
Gentlemen understand function is really required: chronometers, Swiss army knives, tweed.
One function of clothing is to make the wearer look beautiful. Making the wearer look functional is functionality piled too deeply.
How to die
From the Good Drug Guide:
There is perhaps a single predictable time of life when taking crack-cocaine is sensible, harmless and both emotionally and intellectually satisfying. Indeed, for such an occasion it may be commended. Certain estimable English doctors were once in the habit of administering to terminally-ill cancer patients an elixir known as the "Brompton cocktail". This was a judiciously-blended mixture ofcocaine, heroin and alcohol. The results were gratifying not just to the recipient. Relatives of the stricken patient were pleased, too, at the new-found look of spiritual peace and happiness suffusing the features of a loved one as (s)he prepared to meet his or her Maker.
Drawing life to a close with a transcendentally orgasmic bang, and not a pathetic and god-forsaken whimper, can turn dying into the culmination of one's existence rather than its present messy and protracted anti-climax.
There is another good reason to finish life on a high note. In a predominantly secular society, adopting a hedonistic death-style is much more responsible from an ethical utilitarian perspective. For it promises to spare friends and relations the miseries of vicarious suffering and distress they are liable to undergo at present as they witness one's decline.
You don’t have to support your kids
A little poverty is good for a young man or woman. When your children ask you for money, they are asking you to work in their place. They should have a good reason to do so. There are such reasons, but unfulfilled desires are not among them.