We age with the years...
In body, but in character...?
What maketh a man?
A physical age?
A wife?
A cultural ritual?
An arbitrary status?
What about integrity?
The values he commits himself to.
The strength of spirit and soul he embodies through his actions of justice, honesty, and service.
The resolve to continually die and be reborn anew as a leader committed to upholding responsibilities to better himself, his family, community, society, and collective evolution?
Is it the signs we see with the eyes,
associated with preconceptions rooted in a time-based hierarchial framework?
Or the deeper qualities encoded in mind, heart, and genetic essence?
The abilities to flow with life's unfoldment and adjust accordingly to maximize the capacity for constructive growth?
The developed capabilities to understand his place as a leader of our race and respond with wisdom to exercise his influence wisely?
Is it the role he plays for others on the surface?
Or is it the purpose he serves through his being of vibrational integrity?
The codes of conduct he holds himself to.
The coding he is committed to passing along through his walking example.
The maturity gained through his rise to high standards of excellence in every regard.
Many of us were starved of healthy male role models embodying these models of a man.
Few of us were raised in cultures with rituals of initiation into true manhood.
Not token labellings of "manhood," based on getting laid and paid. The higher meanings.
The world we've been at odds with - one full of injustice, corruption, war, etc - is one lacking the maturity of such true male leadership.
Real men don't wage war.
Real men don't use & abuse women.
Real men don't judge, complain, gossip, and condemn.
Any perception of the world being in shambles or falling to corruption is due to no external "evil." It is due to a simple absence of light - embodied in the form of the ripened character of mature man.
The larger reasons as to why so many "men" have trouble in their lives: the absence of an action-backed commitment to the highest standards of character development, through which solutions become revealed as a natural consequence of the perceptive abilities and skillful competencies to affect positive transformation of the environments they move through.
Making a difference in the world is an inside job.
It does all begin with the man in the mirror.
What maketh this man...?
Choices.
Decisions.
Commitments.
Follow-through.
The lessons repeat until learned.
The cycles repeat until the tests are passed.
There is no cheating the system.
Only an inevitable progression through the program.
The choice, then, is in our hands: drag out the process through resistance to undergoing the alchemical transformations into the higher ranks of character of man, or surrender youthful ways for the blossoming of higher potentials brought through inner evolution...
Or some shit.