Boom! (Exciting intro! )
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Manliness?
- Eating lots of meat!
- Chest Hair!
- Guns!
- Pirates!
- Hitting things with Axes! (not the body spray! Is the title of this post 'boy-ness'?! NO! Men don't use body spray!)
- Muscles!
- Burping!
- Big Beards!(the blog title might let you know where I stand on this issue)
- Beer!
- Whiskey! Women! and hunting Waskily Wabbits!
- Ending everything in an exclamation point!!!!!
If you guessed any of the previous, I would say that you are darn close, but no cigar. Well, have a cigar anyways, this a manly post. Why are you close? Most dudes know what I am about to unveil, however, Since the majority of all bloggers and blog readers are females, I'll let you in on a little fact...
Deep down in the core of every single male from age Nine to Ninety is a question: Am I man enough?
Every man worth his mustard asks himself "Am I macho? Do I have the stuff? Am I tough and awesome, etc. etc." Men want, love, crave, expect, dream, and need to feel MANLY. Thats why we seek all the things I listed before. I once heard a wise man say, "If you are not part of the cure, then you are part of the problem." That quote has nothing to do with this post...
However, I also heard a wise man say, "All men want a cause to fight for, a battle to test him, a villain to conquer, and a woman to win."
King Leonidas did not sing Opera
He might have something there...
With this question of all questions in mind, here are some logical results I believe to be true:
- All men have thought or think about joining the military and fighting. While they may not consider 'joining up', all men have wondered what the taste of battle really is like.
- Men revel in experiences that contain the idea of being a hero and beating a rival, thus Men's attraction to sports and video games. I am not encouraging the playing of video games, just explaining some reasons for them. It allows men to succeed in an safe-adventure, if there is such a thing...
- Men love being in the wild, if only for a few days or hours. Camping, Hiking, and the like, test men's abilities. The idea of Man vs. the wild is exhilarating.
If you are a woman, especially a single mother, hopefully this brief incite will help you make sure your man (or little man) grows & blossoms... 'blossoms' is a sissy word... how about, violently flexes into manhood!
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Seeking these pursuits can be healthy, and dad gummit just be the way God made you! However, seek the roaming adventures with caution. I do believe my friend Dr. Service said it best in the following poem...
The Men Who Don't Fit In
by Robert W. Service
There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't stay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and they rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.
If they just went straight they might go far;
They are strong and brave and true;
But they're always tired of the things that are,
And they want the strange and new.
They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
What a deep mark I would make!"
So they chop and change, and each fresh move
Is only a fresh mistake.
And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
Who win in the lifelong race.
And each forgets that his youth has fled,
Forgets that his prime is past,
Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,
In the glare of the truth at last.
He has failed, he has failed; he has missed his chance;
He has just done things by half.
Life's been a jolly good joke on him,
And now is the time to laugh.
Ha, ha! He is one of the Legion Lost;
He was never meant to win;
He's a rolling stone, and it's bred in the bone;
He's a man who won't fit in.
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