We age with the years...
In body, but in character...?
What maketh a man?
A physical age?
A wife?
A cultural ritual?
An arbitrary status?
What about integrity?
The values he commits himself to.
The strength of spirit and soul he embodies through his actions of justice, honesty, and service.
The resolve to continually die and be reborn anew as a leader committed to upholding responsibilities to better himself, his family, community, society, and collective evolution?
Is it the signs we see with the eyes,
associated with preconceptions rooted in a time-based hierarchial framework?
Or the deeper qualities encoded in mind, heart, and genetic essence?
The abilities to flow with life's unfoldment and adjust accordingly to maximize the capacity for constructive growth?
The developed capabilities to understand his place as a leader of our race and respond with wisdom to exercise his influence wisely?
Is it the role he plays for others on the surface?
Or is it the purpose he serves through his being of vibrational integrity?
The codes of conduct he holds himself to.
The coding he is committed to passing along through his walking example.
The maturity gained through his rise to high standards of excellence in every regard.
Many of us were starved of healthy male role models embodying these models of a man.
Few of us were raised in cultures with rituals of initiation into true manhood.
Not token labellings of "manhood," based on getting laid and paid. The higher meanings.
The world we've been at odds with - one full of injustice, corruption, war, etc - is one lacking the maturity of such true male leadership.
Real men don't wage war.
Real men don't use & abuse women.
Real men don't judge, complain, gossip, and condemn.
Any perception of the world being in shambles or falling to corruption is due to no external "evil." It is due to a simple absence of light - embodied in the form of the ripened character of mature man.
The larger reasons as to why so many "men" have trouble in their lives: the absence of an action-backed commitment to the highest standards of character development, through which solutions become revealed as a natural consequence of the perceptive abilities and skillful competencies to affect positive transformation of the environments they move through.
Making a difference in the world is an inside job.
It does all begin with the man in the mirror.
What maketh this man...?
Choices.
Decisions.
Commitments.
Follow-through.
The lessons repeat until learned.
The cycles repeat until the tests are passed.
There is no cheating the system.
Only an inevitable progression through the program.
The choice, then, is in our hands: drag out the process through resistance to undergoing the alchemical transformations into the higher ranks of character of man, or surrender youthful ways for the blossoming of higher potentials brought through inner evolution...
Or some shit.
Commitment is one thing men lacks nowadays
If we backed our commitment with actions then we wont blame others for our errors
amen.
If you ask me, you do not have to be a man, You must be human.. An honest human
I think Kingsman was a very great movie to show the importance of being a man. It was very clothing and manner sided, but indeed, as your post said, there are many other factors.
On a funny note: a comedian from Estonia said that "you can call yourself a man, when you can admit to other men that you jack off".
wtf, lol.
was just watching the new Dave Chapelle feature on Netflix last night and he was joking along the same lines, of how it takes a ridiculously manly man to fuck a guy and he's too much of a pussy. way funnier when he said it. (though I couldn't agree). lol.
lock Manners
lock Maketh
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Smile if you get it (;
By your post I got to know about Maketh man. Thanks for sharing. Carry on!
Upvoted ! For the Real Men :D
Good Article
Nice post brother!! @rok-sivante
Say no to women violence
Nice post!
Achieving a certain level of wisdom, I would regard as something needed to be of an adult mindset :)
We all know that it only takes a genetic decision to make a man (or a woman), but what you are pondering is what makes a good man ... a decent man ... an honourable man, is it not?
Historically, he would likely have been called a gentleman, although not all gentlemen were honourable, decent, or good.
I think if a 'true' man has good intentions, lives by an honourable moral code, and treats others decently then he can proudly call himself a gentleman. :)
To me, integrity and principle makes a man. A man without neither is like a slippery fish you cannot hold on to. Thank you and have a wonderful new year.
If you ask me, one of million reasons why male and female seek the real thing is that our western lives are way to convenient. We watch those who do live a real life from the distance. Zivilisation robbed us of our physical duties like building shelter, making food available and taking care of the young and the elderly.
Now that everything is provided (houses, food, energy, transportation) nothing is left but looking for things which substitute the work for basic needs. I've heard of the saying that former "man" was just hunting and gathering for four hours a day and spent the rest of it with leazure time.
Art, technology, sciences, spiritual matters are the realms we visit and try to make use of our time. Maybe the vast majority just let's the life clock ticking down until death. Many of us are Indiana Jones's on the hunt for adventures, history, secrets, the untouched, the unknown. Many want to learn, seek role models and try to be good people. Many want to give & share to gain meaning.
I don't know what it's all about. I guess it is about being content. Life has it's own meaning and men are men and women are women.
But of course I am always tempted to feel connected and raising questions like yours.
For this particular posting I give you a book recommendation - you maybe like it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_John:_A_Book_About_Men
U just said it all in this post. Also I'll like to add that the experiences a man faces in life can either make or mar him. Beautiful post