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TrueMan up!
Just Strollin’ Along
So near my office (at the Air Force Academy), there’s a trail from the chapel parking lot over the hill to the visitor’s center. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people trek over this trail every week. Yesterday, as I was walking to my truck at the end of the day, I saw something that was NOT manly.
A man was strolling along, walking up the hill easily, without a care in the world… while the woman next to him (I’m assuming his wife) – in a skirt and 4 inch dress-shoe-heels, mind you – was struggling to push their stroller, with baby inside, up this trail! I couldn’t believe it! I wanted to yell out – “Hey, you there, the guy NOT BEING MANLY!!! Why don’t you help her out and push the stroller?! And oh yeah, I’m going to blog about you on www.TrueManhood.com” In an attempt to be civil, I decided not to. (It would have made a scene and would NOT have been the correct way of challenging this guy to be manly.) Oh, how I wish I had my camera.
Guys, whether the women around you are your wife or not, HELP THEM OUT! If it’s another guy, struggling to make it up the hill, you should offer to help him out too! Use common sense, be aware of what’s around you and be a man of action. Do something!
Man up!
The Kind of Man Anyone Would Be Glad to Know
I recently received a birthday card from my parents; the words are meaningful and profound.
“When a Man has a Good Heart and lets it Guide Him –
When He Seeks what is True and Strives to Live by it –
When He Understands His own Gifts and does His Best to Share Them –
That Man does Himself and All Those who Love Him Proud.”
…To the Kind of Man Anyone Would Be Glad to Know…
Man up!
What Does it Mean to Be Manly?
I came across a few videos today on YouTube that were a bit frustrating to watch. I’m not posting them here because 1. they are frustrating 2. they are inappropriate for my site and 3. I don’t want to promote the males that made these videos. What I found in these videos was a misconstrued image of manliness, but not in the normal sense (aka – “cultural manliness”, as I refer to it –> money, power, women, stuff…) but in a sense of bashing overly manly activities, ideas, thoughts and practices. Taking it to the other extreme; calling men to be more feminine. Yuck.
Let me make it clear to the readers of this blog what I mean when I say words like MANLY, MANLINESS, TRUEMAN, TRUEMANHOOD, etc. In essence, I mean virtue. In none of the three videos that sparked this post did they ever mention anything about virtue. It might get old hearing about virtue, and yes, I write about it frequently, but virtue = manliness. TrueManliness. Plain and simple.
Others can blog/vlog about whatever they want, but when it comes to talking about manliness, they aren’t my compass. My compass points are Christ and St. Joseph, combined with other saints and men who are alive (both literally and figuratively) in the faith. These men live(d) out “the greatest of these” – Love. Prudence, Temperance, Justice, Fortitude, Faith, Hope and Love. Live them.
If you would like a copy of some virtue materials, contact TrueManhood.com at proveritasspeakers@gmail.com.
Man up!
