Hey Jack,
You know I guess I would like to impart on you some hopefully advice. You know that the world you live in is and always will be a dangerous one. That is what life is all about it is about facing danger as you know you are ready for it. It is natural for parents to want to protect their children from danger I suppose, I feel it is better for them to prepare them for it. When it comes down to it I pray that you are not only protected but prepared.
The decisions you make have consequences. There are many who say that most people's decisions impact the world for at least three generations after them. I am making some in my life right now that I pray I do not regret.
I have for a very long time lived a life where I was afraid much of the time. Many people never have seen that part of me but I have seen somethings in life that scared me deeply.
I am blessed to be able to impart some wisdom from those experiences.
I would advise you to live love and fight for what you believe in while you are a young and the only consequence you have is your own life. As you grow older you will inevitably become responsible for more and more and your decisions will affect more people.
While you are young and you still have the chance. Make a lot of mistakes, push yourself to your limits and beyond (this is the only way you will know where the limit is and trust me Son if you are a good man there will be someone to bring you back to safety).
I pray you are a good man. I pray I am still. It is a daily choice a man must make but it is rare that you get a true chance to start completely over and see what you are made of later on in life.
That is where I sit today and it feel like when I first got on a plane to see what was out there in the wild blue yonder. Scared yes but it is when that feeling disappears that I pray you come talk
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Monday, March 6, 2017
Speak Out for What You Believe In
To : My Grandson
From : Benjamin Clasen
Hey Jack,
I hope that you are doing well and that everything is great in your life. Just know that there were a few who came before you who took a stand for what is right in this world and paid dearly for the freedoms I hope you still have.
As for me, during my lifetime my freedoms have been infringed upon more times that I can remember. Mostly my freedom of speech which is why I am writing this blog to you and I promise I will never take it down so in the event I should perish before getting to speak to you, you will know that I do some very self sacrificing deeds for the ideals I know are right.
First I have several times been put into mental hospitals for speaking my mind online about things that your ancestors have done in their lives which affected me.
I have for much time tried to make a break from a family that keeps any kind of dirty little secret off the internet. Your great grandfather, my father was and maybe at the time of this writing a criminal. His name is Henry Allen Clasen. I feared for many years that the sins of his criminal life might be revisited on me or my Mom but you want to know something Jack. People who carry guns for or to influence people with fear are just cowards. I have accepted that I will die and already have a few times.
Most people in the United States of America I currently live in fear two things. Losing their money and death. They are all dumbasses in my book. Those are two certainties in life.
What you do in life is important and it leaves a legacy no matter what you do whether it be for good or evil.
The most misquoted verse in the Holy Bible is as follows. Money is the root of all evil. The real verse is "The Love of Money is the Root of All Evil"
Anyways Jack I hope I do leave your parents something in the end of all this, but right now I am down to less than a pack of smokes and I am being forced to take medication that long ago I vowed I would never have children on so you may never exist.
I do pray a lot for people to see the light and know that though it be uncomfortable I speak the Truth.
Love you Jack. You may only be a far off twinkle in my eye but I know the day will come when I am bouncing you on my knee and telling you some pretty cool pirate stories.
Love,
Grandpa Ben
From : Benjamin Clasen
Hey Jack,
I hope that you are doing well and that everything is great in your life. Just know that there were a few who came before you who took a stand for what is right in this world and paid dearly for the freedoms I hope you still have.
As for me, during my lifetime my freedoms have been infringed upon more times that I can remember. Mostly my freedom of speech which is why I am writing this blog to you and I promise I will never take it down so in the event I should perish before getting to speak to you, you will know that I do some very self sacrificing deeds for the ideals I know are right.
First I have several times been put into mental hospitals for speaking my mind online about things that your ancestors have done in their lives which affected me.
I have for much time tried to make a break from a family that keeps any kind of dirty little secret off the internet. Your great grandfather, my father was and maybe at the time of this writing a criminal. His name is Henry Allen Clasen. I feared for many years that the sins of his criminal life might be revisited on me or my Mom but you want to know something Jack. People who carry guns for or to influence people with fear are just cowards. I have accepted that I will die and already have a few times.
Most people in the United States of America I currently live in fear two things. Losing their money and death. They are all dumbasses in my book. Those are two certainties in life.
What you do in life is important and it leaves a legacy no matter what you do whether it be for good or evil.
The most misquoted verse in the Holy Bible is as follows. Money is the root of all evil. The real verse is "The Love of Money is the Root of All Evil"
Anyways Jack I hope I do leave your parents something in the end of all this, but right now I am down to less than a pack of smokes and I am being forced to take medication that long ago I vowed I would never have children on so you may never exist.
I do pray a lot for people to see the light and know that though it be uncomfortable I speak the Truth.
Love you Jack. You may only be a far off twinkle in my eye but I know the day will come when I am bouncing you on my knee and telling you some pretty cool pirate stories.
Love,
Grandpa Ben
Sunday, March 5, 2017
Just know I love you
To : My Grandson (Entry 1)
From : Benjamin Clasen
Well if you are reading this you might think I have a grandson. Not yet. I am thirty six years old but have gained some wisdom in life that I think could be relevant to any young man's life that I would like to share. Just easier to think of that I am writing to my Grandson from a ship at sea just not really knowing what Big Blue is about to do and if I will see him again.
I believe that almost everyone has some point where they have to make a real decision on how they are going to live the rest of their lives. Some it is early on some it is later. Some decisions there really is no turning back from and you just have to live with it and deal with it for the rest of your life.
Sometimes you will be given a second chance to make a fresh and new impression on the world and that is where I am at right now.
A year ago today I made a decision. I decided that I was going to give one last shot at getting off psychiatric medication in hopes of having children and living a long and prosperous life.
If you are my grandson and you are reading this and you are a healthy happy young man I guess that I can be happy in that I was successful.
You know I had a grandpa once too. He was and still is my hero. I never really did understand too well why he never really did stress too much about anything. He squeezed out tunes on his accordion and just had a great time and then as he got older he just never really sweated stuff too much.
Just before he died he told me one bit of information that gave me hope in my struggles with what was thought to be a mental illness that ran in my family. Turns out I have a traumatic brain injury that was misdiagnosed and I am recovering well now that I have the right diagnosis. Anyways Jack (I hope that is your name) I just want to tell you some stories of my life while I try to learn more about my grandpa. He kept a few things to himself until the very end but he always told me what I needed to hear.
I remember two of the last things that he told me. One was that during the War (World War II) he had orders as a Marine in the South Pacific and they were followed. Sometime that meant killing sometimes that meant doing other thing that haunted him to the day he died. The second was he told me that sometime after the war he spent some time in a psychiatric hospital. That is about all I know from the six years he spent serving our Country. That and he never got shot (he finally got appendicitis and was sent home) and that he knew Eleanor Roosevelt well at one time.
That and I know he love his dear sweet wife Anne and his two little girls Julie and Suzy.
Ironic as it is it was those last little stories that gave me the faith in God and ultimately myself to know that I could accomplish what most doctors these days will tell you is impossible.
Let me tell you Son All things are Possible Thru Christ.
I pray I get to tell you a little about him someday. My grandfather and Christ that is.
Love,
Grandpa Ben
From : Benjamin Clasen
Well if you are reading this you might think I have a grandson. Not yet. I am thirty six years old but have gained some wisdom in life that I think could be relevant to any young man's life that I would like to share. Just easier to think of that I am writing to my Grandson from a ship at sea just not really knowing what Big Blue is about to do and if I will see him again.
I believe that almost everyone has some point where they have to make a real decision on how they are going to live the rest of their lives. Some it is early on some it is later. Some decisions there really is no turning back from and you just have to live with it and deal with it for the rest of your life.
Sometimes you will be given a second chance to make a fresh and new impression on the world and that is where I am at right now.
A year ago today I made a decision. I decided that I was going to give one last shot at getting off psychiatric medication in hopes of having children and living a long and prosperous life.
If you are my grandson and you are reading this and you are a healthy happy young man I guess that I can be happy in that I was successful.
You know I had a grandpa once too. He was and still is my hero. I never really did understand too well why he never really did stress too much about anything. He squeezed out tunes on his accordion and just had a great time and then as he got older he just never really sweated stuff too much.
Just before he died he told me one bit of information that gave me hope in my struggles with what was thought to be a mental illness that ran in my family. Turns out I have a traumatic brain injury that was misdiagnosed and I am recovering well now that I have the right diagnosis. Anyways Jack (I hope that is your name) I just want to tell you some stories of my life while I try to learn more about my grandpa. He kept a few things to himself until the very end but he always told me what I needed to hear.
I remember two of the last things that he told me. One was that during the War (World War II) he had orders as a Marine in the South Pacific and they were followed. Sometime that meant killing sometimes that meant doing other thing that haunted him to the day he died. The second was he told me that sometime after the war he spent some time in a psychiatric hospital. That is about all I know from the six years he spent serving our Country. That and he never got shot (he finally got appendicitis and was sent home) and that he knew Eleanor Roosevelt well at one time.
That and I know he love his dear sweet wife Anne and his two little girls Julie and Suzy.
Ironic as it is it was those last little stories that gave me the faith in God and ultimately myself to know that I could accomplish what most doctors these days will tell you is impossible.
Let me tell you Son All things are Possible Thru Christ.
I pray I get to tell you a little about him someday. My grandfather and Christ that is.
Love,
Grandpa Ben
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