THE PRIDE OF MANHOOD!
If you are the type of man who thinks, waking up every
morning, reveling at all times during the day and reflecting before going to
bed each night, “I Love Being A Man”! Then
you have what I call “PRIDE OF MANHOOD”!
Pride of Manhood is not vanity at all and anyone who misinterprets it to
be so has fundamentally missed its humble handsomeness. Pride of Manhood it is a profoundly warm and
comforting sense of belonging that intimately ties a man to his family,
community, other men and women; it is like being an official representative of
your sex. It is like being a member of a
special and elite club that is solely responsible for the preservation of
gentlemanliness. It is a powerful
commitment to uphold the most ancient and handsome traditions of manhood.
Pride of Manhood is an emotion that I have felt since I was
a boy dreaming about becoming a man. I
watched every man I encountered for clues and examples of the magnificence I
would eventually inherit upon crossing that threshold. I watched the way my father and other men
dressed and walked and talked, studied the content and manner of their
conversation, their deportment the way they groomed themselves, everything
about being a man fascinated my imagination.
Today that passion and excitement has actually grown. I am excited about just being a man, I love
to hear the stories of men young and old because for me it represents the
fulfillment of life itself. As a man I
am part of a great and glorious continuum that will mark my presence among so
many great men in history, I am privileged to share with them the one truly
great commonalities; that of being a man.
When I begin to define Pride of Manhood I think about my
father and how close to his sterling example I have always followed. I am so proud to be his son and to have had
the ability to be blessed by his wisdom.
So I have defined for you the intrinsic, soulfulness of manhood and
entreat all men to join in its resplendent celebration. But there are other offerings to manhood more
simple and more tangible, that bring its
ideology into a practical tactile realm.
Examples might be the way a man holds his cigar, the way he swings his
golf club, or the way he places the feather in his fedora. These are the practical manifestations of the
spirit of manhood and create their own handsome aesthetic. The way a man cleans his shoes or holds his
braces, the chain he selects for his pocket watch or the way he unwittingly
adusts his trousers… all of these define the extrinsic side of a man and should
be celebrated equally as much because they bring the conceptual aspect of
manhood into 3-dimensional reality, being assigned with color, texture and
sound they define the visible man we encounter every day of our lives.
So today and every day I live I cultivate and celebrate
Pride of Manhood, not as a phenomenon self-consciously manufactured for
everyone to see but rather for my own fulfillment. In a world where fineness of human character
and integrity are diminishing I want to express my passion to shine as an
example of resplendent manhood the extent that my effort I can serve as a model
for others as well as a driving force for my own self-improvement in the arts
of manliness! I love being a man and
that dynamic, fulfilling life-passion is what fulfills me with a true Pride of
Manhood!
FIN
Written By Bigdaddy Blues
