We must keep in mind that being a real man means being responsible for his actions. Someone who can care for his children, not someone who passes his responsibilities at home to his wife and leaves everything in disarray. On the contrary, he is loving toward his wife and children.
Being a man is not just being male, a simple individual of the sex. But doing things in accordance with his role as a man. The real man gets up to face his responsibilities if he falls or fails and tries again. He fights, he raises his eyes, he dreams of something great. Also he is aware of his actions and, above all, responsible for them.
Moreover being a man is knowing what needs to be done and doing it. Knowing what needs to be said and saying it. It is also knowing how to say no. He respects the promises he made when he married, he is ashamed to mock a woman, to abuse the weak, to lie to the naive. To be a man is to understand work not as a necessity. But as a privilege and a gift, which dignifies and brings pride.
He sees the need for discipline based on sound principles and to submit to it of his own free will. To be a man is to understand that life is not something handed to us on a silver platter. So rather an opportunity to do something well and meaningful. The world needs real men, your family needs a responsible man. Young people need role models of real men so they can become truly men themselves.
A real man makes decisions and lives with the consequences, he accepts responsibility for his actions and his words, he is firm in what he says. When he makes a promise, he keeps it. If he cannot keep a promise, then he doesn’t give his word; he knows that his words are as powerful as his actions.
Futhermore he knows the difference between what is important and what is not. He doesn’t waste time on things that won’t benefit him, and he focuses on his family to keep it strong. He knows that children are a gift from God and treats them as such. A real man is the pillar of his family, serving as an example to his children and those around him.
In other words, we have to break with the model of masculine strength. Men are also people, and as such, their lives have moments of strength but also of weakness and frustration.
Throughout history, there have been real men. People who have shown true masculine character and who have also made great contributions to humanity. As a famous French encyclopedist said: “I know of no greater men than those who have rendered great services to humanity.”
Emerson, the philosopher, said about man: “The heroic man is the man unshakably affirmed in his principles.”
Graham Greene, the novelist, said: “Humanity advances not only through the powerful pushes of its great men. But also through the modest impulses of every responsible person.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, the Russian writer, said: “When I recognize a brother in my neighbor, only then am I truly human.”
Some men who have been exemplary throughout history include: Louis Pasteur, the French chemist whose discoveries were of enormous importance in various fields of natural science and microbiology. He is credited with the technique known as pasteurization.
Isaac Newton, the English scientist, philosopher, alchemist, and mathematician who formulated the law of universal gravitation. And established the foundations of classical mechanics through the laws that bear his name. Among his scientific discoveries are his work on the nature of light, optics, and the development of calculus.
Abraham Lincoln is remembered for restoring the nation’s federal unity by defeating the Confederate States and for ending slavery in the United States.
George Washington, due to his crucial role in the founding of the United States of America, is known as the father of that nation, and history recognizes him as one of its greatest presidents. He considered himself a selfless public servant. Distinguished by his honesty, and his guiding principle was: “I hope I may always have the strength and virtue to preserve what I consider to be the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”
A true man will always inspire trust, protection, and love. A man is not one with arms of steel, but one who possesses the strength to lift up those who falter along the way. Being a man is not about great physical strength, but about having enough tenderness to comfort others in times of sadness and hardship.
Being a true man is not about being a scholar and sage. Simply about having enough intelligence to understand. A true man is one who knows how to listen, understand, be a friend, husband, brother, and counselor. One who respects values, family, temptations, and offenses; one who shows his feelings without fear or pretense and is sensitive to pain.
Being a man means being the foundation and cornerstone of our society. Men bear the responsibility of building a better world each day. Hence the need to understand the true character of a man. Because when a man fails, he fails not only himself but all of society.
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