To be a man
-The lonely road
To provide, to protect, to serve, to shelter, to teach, to guide, to show forgiveness, to show humility.
A man does these things not for himself but for others. To do them effectively is to display courage, discipline and sacrifice.
It is a lonely existence, expelling all of these things, and yet there is no understanding and at times no appreciation, because it has become a normal and expected outcome of your existence.
Those around you have come to know these traits of you and see any alteration in them to be odd and at times a potential sign if weakness.
The unspoken struggle is that these traits are not always easy to uphold. The crumbling weight can bring a man to his knees and kick him when he is down.
without a change in facial expression or mood or tone of voice the battle silently rages within, while no one around is the wiser.
Most men live a life if quiet desperation
Fighting to uphold our family name while not reacting to the passage of familial trauma because if one does, he will continue that generational curse.
Lost in this cycle of how we project and hide the battle within, to be a man is a crumbling weight and quit litter kills us in the form of suicide, cardiovascular…
