Young male, be what you were born to be. Become a man!

Today, this is not easy. It has never been easy.

Be wise. Study the world and cultivate your conscience. Humbly learn to discern good from evil, right from wrong, gracious from contorted, and natural from perverse. Stand up for that which is good, right, gracious, and natural.

Always be willing to reconsider your assessments as you grow in understanding and experience. And, allow that good and smart people might disagree with your own sensibilities. But, unless you are genuinely convinced that your ideas need to be revised, stand resolutely by the dictates of your conscience.

Be strong. Challenge your body’s momentary limitations, as well as those of your mind. Exert yourself so that you grow beyond your temporary limits.

Always make the effort to grow healthier and more capable. Make a habit of purposefully striving to improvise, adapting, and overcoming today’s challenges in order to better prepare yourself for even greater challenges tomorrow.

Make these exertions in order to be more capable of doing your duty. Do not be vainglorious or self-infatuated. The best destiny of both you and your strength is to serve a greater good than your own ego.

Be brave. Everyone dies, but not everyone lives. Boldly face your fear, and pass through it to pursue the decisions of your mind’s best judgment. Outlast terror and become more than a slave to your own dark imaginings.

Fear exists, but it is not prudence nor wisdom. Fear is an overwrought survival instinct that momentarily eclipses your own mind. A coward may extend his body’s life by a bit, but he will do so at the expense of an unquiet conscience, self-loathing, or worse the death of his capacity to feel shame. Shame, like physical pain, prevents us from doing what we ought never to do. Without shame, we are narcissistic blights on the world.

Serve a greater cause than your appetites, comfort, and vanity. Men exist to defend the right, as well as to provide for and protect our own women and children. Males who forget this become predators upon their own kind, cannibalistically leeching joy and vitality from those weaker than themselves. Classically, these vicious thugs are wolves preying upon humanity.

The proper response of a man to the threat of wolves is to be a sheep dog. Surpass the wolf’s violence with your own. Overcome the wolf’s ferocity with dedication. Be loving to your pack mates while bringing trauma to any who would threaten them.

Be wise, brave, strong, and dutiful. Any male who aspires to such virtues will find purpose, because our world has great need for genuine men.

To be a man is a simple vocation. It is making the choice to have integrity each and every day.

Today, thanks to a Feminism that insists that men must be diminished in order for women to flourish, our wider society might not react well to your commitment to be a man. In fact, they will nip at your heels and condemn you for being a toxic male dinosaur that today’s woman does not need.

Don’t believe them! Their society has plunging birthrates and rising suicide rates because their ideas are the ones which are poisonous. They do great harm to girls and women as well as to boys and men by stoking hatred between men and women.

Many males have been seduced away from being men by their siren song of mediocrity. Do not allow their upside-down fever dreams to disturb you. Be true to yourself, your conscience, and your loved ones.

Young male, be a man!