The Qualities of a Good Man
The qualities of a "Good" Man
"Your gonna' grow up and be just like your father!" Much more than a forecast of an unfortunate demise, but this and other comments have rendered me as screwed up as I am today. A personal goal I have set is to be nothing like my father; the question why can be debated later on a damn' NBC mini-series, or a rather entertaining episode of the Maury Povic show. Anger, dishonesty, cowardice and weakness are traits we can all do without, but thanks to heredity my father embraces them, like his father did and so on. With a healthy share of negative male influences around me, I can accurately judge what qualities make a "good" man, taking into consideration the fact that ones definition of "good" varies from one person to the next. A good man should posses all the traits you can attribute with "good." A "good" man should be honest. A man is not a man if he tells stories like a small boy. A "good" man should be fun to hang out with, have a sense of humor, and be someone you can just sit and talk with. A "good" man isn't overly dull and should be the kind of person who can take a joke, even if the joke isn't humorous because it may have racist or sexist content. Nobody ever said there's anything wrong with a "smile" and a "wave." A "good" man can rise above the fact that the world is full of ignorance, accept reality for what it is and rise above his human tendency to be offended and seek retaliation. Scientific tests find that an organism that reacts on impulse alone is defined as an animal, and men are not animals, or at least most of them. A "good" man can effectively use his animal instinct to get whatever he wants out of life. The animal instinct in a man is the single element that separates the men from the boys, and help prove sometimes "good" can mean "bad" at the same time. Its this animal instinct that can reduce you to a street vagrant, or empower you to become a rich and powerful stock broker or lawyer. The
"Your gonna' grow up and be just like your father!" Much more than a forecast of an unfortunate demise, but this and other comments have rendered me as screwed up as I am today. A personal goal I have set is to be nothing like my father; the question why can be debated later on a damn' NBC mini-series, or a rather entertaining episode of the Maury Povic show. Anger, dishonesty, cowardice and weakness are traits we can all do without, but thanks to heredity my father embraces them, like his father did and so on. With a healthy share of negative male influences around me, I can accurately judge what qualities make a "good" man, taking into consideration the fact that ones definition of "good" varies from one person to the next. A good man should posses all the traits you can attribute with "good." A "good" man should be honest. A man is not a man if he tells stories like a small boy. A "good" man should be fun to hang out with, have a sense of humor, and be someone you can just sit and talk with. A "good" man isn't overly dull and should be the kind of person who can take a joke, even if the joke isn't humorous because it may have racist or sexist content. Nobody ever said there's anything wrong with a "smile" and a "wave." A "good" man can rise above the fact that the world is full of ignorance, accept reality for what it is and rise above his human tendency to be offended and seek retaliation. Scientific tests find that an organism that reacts on impulse alone is defined as an animal, and men are not animals, or at least most of them. A "good" man can effectively use his animal instinct to get whatever he wants out of life. The animal instinct in a man is the single element that separates the men from the boys, and help prove sometimes "good" can mean "bad" at the same time. Its this animal instinct that can reduce you to a street vagrant, or empower you to become a rich and powerful stock broker or lawyer. The