ask any girl, well teenage girl i guess, what the first thing that comes to their mind is when you say the word "guys".
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you'll probably get a lot of replies like
"jerks", "brainless", "inconsiderate", "incorrigible" .. and a whole array of imaginatively painful ways to dis the male gender.
and you know what's sad ? a lot of time these insults just bounce off our chest, we laugh them off and grin stupidly.
you know what's even worse ?
it's true.
to be completely honest, there are a lot of times that i'm embarrassed to be a guy.
don't get me wrong please. it's not that i'm looking for a sex change.
but honestly guys, let's face it, we're pretty discpicable creatures.
and we tend to do some pretty brainless things too.
BUT WHYYY !!?!?!?!
i've just begun reading this book called God's Gift To Women by Eric Ludy.
i'm about halfway through but it's really a very good book.
and if by some stroke of luck one of you out there reading this knows a friend of a friend of a relative of a friend who knows eric ludy it'll be fantastic if you could help me thank him. thanks. anyway in this book he talks about exactly this, "discovering the lost greatness of masculinity"
he talks of world changing men, history makers, men that stand up for the weak, men that shroud themselves in purity and fight for the truth.
even as you're reading this, it probably sounds far-fetched right ? you're probably thinking "ho ho this fella has seen one too many disney movies" and that goes to show exactly how far we've strayed away from our blueprints. that we find even the idea of it incredulous..
i don't think we were created to turn out like this..
enslaved into a life of faux identity.
it's a chameleon's life that's what i call it..
changing lifestyles and character traits instantly to blend with the surroundings.
after a while it's hard for even ourselves to know who really are.
really great great men have fast become a rarity.
sometimes it may take an entirely lifetime for us to ever encounter a true example of a, as Eric calls it, warrior poet.
remember the days of William Wallace? people who stood up to fight for freedom. a single man who refused to be ignored, not because he was fat and obnoxious, but because he believed so strongly in something that he would willingly give his life for what he believed in. now when was the last time we didn't give a damn how we looked like on the outside in order to defend something greater on the inside.. allowing ourselves to look less "cool" to save our soul ? it sounds stupid, but most of the time we'd choose to forgo anything rather than to risk appearing uncool.
anyway if you don't know what i'm talking about, go watch brave heart..
i've seen it reduce guys to tears. (yeah, horror of horrors, contrary to popular belief, there are still some guys left who have the ability to cry)
ok i know i'm rambling so i apologize for that. but it's just something that's been heavily impressed upon me this last week.
it's awakened something within me that desires, no, commands me to step out of the throng, and transform myself into something more. i don't know what it is yet.. but there's definitely something MUCH more.
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