Moving on Up in the World

It's getting to be that time in a man's life (my personal life and experience with 'things') where one must realize what he wants to do with his life from here on forward. Not just future, family, career, friends, likes, wants and all in between, but rather, where I make definitive choices in my life that will lead me to becoming the man I want to become and show the world as I am. Who I perceive myself to be and who the world perceives me to be. I am my own manifestation of myself amongst the rest. I possess the power to transform thought to action and discipline to practice. This notion of becoming a 'man' in pop culture and what a man's responsibilities are is bogus and blown out of proportion. A man takes care of his family AND friends and loved ones in his own way (how society has portrayed him to do so over many years) and a woman does the same. We do this because we love these people and the place they hold in our lives and are willing to do what it takes to comfort them, support them and trust/rely on them vice versa.
Just as my fiancé told me, a woman was going on about how a woman is supposed to take care of her man and give him things whenever he wants, asks or needs. A man provides for the family and woman and the woman does the rest. This has been placed in the traditional thought of many cultures around the world. Slavery was also a huge traditional and cultural essence among many cultures, but that too faded out over time. Soon the set gender roles of man and woman will do the same. Their is nothing wrong with these notions of gender and tradition, but the more we develop and transform psychologically, emotionally and socially as a species the more we discover about ourselves. We do this because we love these people and the place they hold in our lives and are willing to do what it takes to comfort them, support them and trust/rely on them vice versa.

I am moving up in the world, and it is better than I once amy have thought it would have been. Getting married to an amazing woman who will be the mother of my children, all the while moving into a new house with brand new everything is only the beginning of the rest of our lives. I could't be happier, but this is where the choices that make us into the people we want to become count!!