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17 November 2020
Essence of Fatherhood
The TED talks hosted in Auckland on 12 July 2016 by Richard Aston were incredibly touching and brought others’ connection and caring. Richard talked about his social service and the need for more volunteers in the field. The main intention of these social services was to make the world a better place. He voiced the desperate need to bring genuine human caring to social services. This was particularly important as the unfortunate victims and needed extra help from these social services were more about a connection with the victims and making them feel important and self-confident for the most part. The financial assistance played an important role, but the people’s involvement needed love and affection more to ensure a change in future generations and spread the values of kindness for more peaceful and responsible generations. He urged that the human connection and genuine involvement should accompany financial aid, and the latter was an essential part of the social services everywhere.
Richard Aston is a father to many fatherless boys in the United States. He the founder of a nonprofit organization, Big Boys, which tends to the needs of fatherless boys. His organization provides and equips the boys with the knowledge and skills needed in life by showering them with love and care. Richard’s primary motivation was when an eight-year-old boy was asked about the Big Boys program by his single mother. The boy’s response was simple and logical enough, but the boy’s response’s impact and power send a massive wave of remorse. The boy responded to his mother by saying, “I like the guy, I know he is not my dad, but at least he is a dad (Aston, one min-fifty-two sec.)
Richard Aston’s talk is fascinating and funny when one is keen enough, and his humor is subtle and yet hits below the belt several times towards the Government and the looney standards, making it remarkably hard for the well-wishers who see a problem and want to remedy it with genuine concern and love. His sincere tone and passion for genuine help by assuming the role of father to many boys is divinely inspired.
The talk is mostly about the hurdles imposed by the authorities when asked about the purpose of his social service, to which he funnily reenacts and ironically answers, “To show care and love.” The hindrances that make genuine people not partake in the social services are the regulations, requirements, and standards imposed, which may cost a fortune, while otherwise, it costs him nothing to be a guiding light to the boys he mentors. His solution to father the boys is to be a real genuine father by showing his parental love and connecting with the boys; this is what he says costs him nothing. This is why he urges the social service policymakers to have empathy and take the necessary action and remember the main motive of social service is to help out and not on the requirements and limiting standards of helping.
Richard’s resilience and drive to help out made him go against protocol ensued, which he chooses not to linger on for so much. His subtle blame of the Trump wall on the Us Mexico border and the implications of incompetence in governance style. My favorite part of the video is how he chose to go on his dark side. His involvement with the black market, which is ironically owned by several marginalized ethical communities, to purchase the unnecessary items that the social service system requires, only for a lower price to ensure the nonprofit organization’s-imposed standards are met. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and for Richard’s case, it’s because that’s what heroes do.