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Burning Down Walls and Building up Bridges.... eventually it'll come a time where what we thought will be what we know, and what we know will be what we knew, that'll be when thoughts and dreams become reality. and our reality the beginning of our destiny. "Success is a Journey not a Goal"-P.Shaw
 
 
 
I just have so much on my mind so much that I want to say to my men, I don't even know how to address it all when It comes down to writing this. So I just wanna start from square one...
 
 
 
BE A MAN... The times of games are completley over. There comes a point in every guys life wher eit is time to be a man.. 1 Corin 13:11..11 When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Yeah I took it there because I am tired of men acting as if itis something that is a Choice to do. Being a man is not a choice, it is going to happen whether you want it to or not, you have two choices and that is to get it out of the way and man up from the time you call yurself a man or do you wait and learn the hard way....
 
 
 
The thing is and the reason I say this, I had a homegirl ask where are all the Men, where? and it kind of set in that it was just not her but more than 50% of single women I have run into want to know where the Men are. I want to know myself, Where are We? and I ask because I am a man and whether I am good and you bad we both are a reflection of each other... because if you treat a girl bad she will expect that from me, and if i treat her good that's an expectation of yourself.
 
 
 
When is it a time to understand that part of maturity is taking responsibility for each action that we have completed. I understand that we mess up, but as a man the objective is to own up and take ownership of our mistakes and indiscrections. I am no more better than you are because as a man I make mistakes, I have just learned that part of being a man is learn from every situation that you have been through or that you have caused and become better. become greater. become wiser.
 
I am so tired of seeing our men go through the same situations over and over and over, why are we not learning the things the first time around.
 
 
 
Why is it so hard, why do we allow our pride to get the best of us in every situation. No one deserves our pride, not ourselves and Especially not our women. You know i have stated this before and will always reiterate this, the mold of a woman is to complete us, witout women, how can we breathe? how can we live? our ribcage, protects our lungs, with no lungs we can't breathe, equally meaning how can we live?
 
 
 
Own up as a man it's time to go to our women and our situations and set expectations. Set an expectation of Greatness. Set an atmosphere of happiness, love, future, purpose and destiny. yeah you can do all of that in a friendship in a relationship, the thing is whether or not you really want what you say you want, do you really want to go after what you say you want to go after. It's not an easy thing in life to but but its definitely worth everything that you know that it will be worth.
 
sometimes we have to take ownership of other men actions. That is part of being a man as well, stop saying I am not the last guy even I find myself comparing myself to the last, which is something that can not be done... Sometimes you have to just say:
 
baby, i know you heard this a thousand times. but imma try my best to get it right. and make up all the promises i made to you. lady it was never my intentions to make you cry. and im sorry doesnt make it right. whoa ooh, before you walk out the door let me show you what ive learned.. didnt mean to put you through drama. broken promises, things i said i would never do to you. and its killin me to see you walk out..give me a chance to turn it around. i promise im your better man, even when youre not your best. show you youre beautiful, promise to keep you number one. well girl im your better man. im gonna change the way you see all you gotta do is believe in me.. you don't even have to say that but be sincere that is all that is asked of you, we know that we aren't the last and so does she otherwise she would not be dealing with us as a man in the first place...
 
 
 
1 Corin 13:4-7.4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
 
whether or not you like it, it's real, and that's all that there will ever be and that is the word.
 
 
 
Man up and learn LOVE, TRUE LOVE, REAL LOVE, GODLY LOVE. Once we get it we got it.. But it's that time, we don't have many opportunities to get things right and you don't wanna miss out on the greatest opportunity you never had by never trying to be real...
 
and as a man you can cry a million times and let all your tears flow, at that single moment nobody ever notices....but as soon as you hold it in and smile at the crowd, they get suspicious then everybody lookin'.
 
take that how you want