Sean Swaby reflects on what it means to take what you are given and make something out of it.
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Moving.
The earth is moving under our feet and we don’t feel it. At the same time, we are moving. Our cells are regenerating and remaking our bodies from the inside to the outside.
As men, life moves inside of us.
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We are expected to take the life we have been given and then form it, so that we can make a living. Some of us, we won’t make it.
Because of
Abuse
Addiction
Divorce
Abandonment
Suicide
Loss
And pain
We feel it. Deeply. But men don’t talk so we use our fists, our wheels, our paycheques, our muscles, our bodies to speak for us.
And no one gets it.
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Life will dish on you. All that it’s got: Hard things bring harder choices. But life needs men to be who they are.
You can swallow your pride; you can hide your feelings.
Or
You can speak it.
First, you listen to yourself and pay attention.
Man, it’s not about the …
House
Clothes
Body
Money
Job
… It’s all the same
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What matters is to take whatever life has given you. Remember, that’s just the start. You make your life. It’s up to you to take your place and stand up.
Be Good to your
Family
Friends
Self
World
Because no one can take your place.
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Keep it Real
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Read it, absorb it, be it. From today forward, gents. How much time have you wasted, how much time will you continue to waste?
Can’t, or won’t? Fear, inability? It’s there, but its always there. No excuse, no reason, and not all at once.
Put one foot infront of the other. Remind to put one foot infront of the other until such a time as you do not have to remind to put one foot infront of the other….defined as change.
Stop thinking of the man you seek to be and begin being the man you sought to be.