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Your heart,
it’s
worth fighting for
The Journey of Manhod, Day 1
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Do you really believe your heart is worth
fighting for? That’s right, I am asking you do you really believe is your
heart worth fighting for? I will tell you right now, before we even start this
journey of your heart as a young man it is not going to be easy, but it is very
much worth it! If you are a young lady reading this article, you might find some
of this helpful, but my passion for writing this is for the young men that will
join me in the fight for reclaiming our hearts in the journey of manhood!
Why do I start here with the fight for you
heart? Well why not? Is not your heart where passion, love, desire and feeling
alive comes from? We could start with a lot of other areas in the journey to
manhood, but I will be honest with you that if you don’t have the desire to
enter into manhood and fight for your heart you are probably going to get picked
off along the journey by a multitude of things that will come in your way on
this journey.
“…if you
don’t have the desire to enter into manhood and fight for your heart you are
probably going to get picked off…”
So if you are ready to join me in the fight for
our hearts, in the journey into authentic manhood I invite you to come along my
side and venture into this journey of manhood! It is a journey that I have
been on for a few years now, but one that in only the last
year I have really picked up the pace in. The winning of the fight for
my heart in finding freedom as well as authentic manhood. Isn’t it
great guys to be a man? I am so glad that I am a man and that I have a God given
desire and passion to be alive and to pursue adventure and life! You may not
have a burning desire or passion right now in your heart for this journey, but
don’t be discouraged we live in a time when being a man is not easy and we
have faced a lot of junk that has made this journey confusing. For a lot of us
we don’t have a father or one who has know how to take us along in this
journey. I know many young men today come from broken homes, with dads who they never
knew or skipped out on them or who just never had the path of the journey into
manhood shown to them by their fathers to pass on to us. Eventually we will journey into that
area of our hearts, but right now set aside that part of your heart and life
because we are going to start the fight for our hearts somewhere else first.
I have already told you this won’t be a easy
journey and I told you to be ready to fight along the journey into manhood for
your heart, but let’s start this journey in asking ourselves the question "who am I?" Sounds
kind of funny I know, but "who are you?" Do you really know? As a young man we
have tons of changes going on in our life, body, thoughts, school, family,
relationships and the list goes on and on. My point is that we have to know who
we are and to start looking and searching to see who we really are and we are
starting today. No waiting or putting this on hold, we are starting today and I
know it may not be a easy task, but if we keep waiting for the right time or
when we have more time, chances are we won’t ever get started. We
don’t have the time to waste; this is a journey we have to start today. Why?
Because we are physically growing more into men each day and the longer we wait,
the more junk we will have to fight in the journey of manhood.
"...we are
physically growing more into men each day and the longer we wait, the more
junk we will have to fight in the journey of manhood."
So fellow young men, this is the start of the
journey of manhood we are starting side by side and the first thing we are going
to do is as I said, ask ourselves "who am I?" I have some questions to think about, to help you in adventure of discovering who you really are. This is by the way, just the start you aren’t
going to find all the answers for this question over night, it is going to be
more of a process and we won’t all get there at the same time, but getting
there is our goal. It doesn’t matter if we get there first, because getting
there is what is important. This isn’t some feel good motivation thing, and I
don’t believe that games where everyone is a winner are how the
real world works. However, this isn’t something you measure against the other young men
around you, because they aren’t you! We all have different courses in life, obstacles
and circumstances so it would be dumb to try and compete against each other. We
need to help each other in this fight, because that is another part of the
journey to manhood helping each other along the way. Manhood isn’t a
one-person journey; we would be in a lot of trouble if it were.
Here are seven questions for you, but one more
thing before we get started. So we can see how we are growing, maturing and
coming along in our journey into manhood I ask that you go get a
notebook, journal or start word a processing file on your computer to remember
your answers to these questions. You may think you will remember, but trust me our memory fades as time goes on. This way we are going to be able to go back and
see what we thought along the way as we entered manhood and it will also help
us to think more about the questions.
You have come this far, and that shows you are
determined and you have a real desire to become a man. Please don’t just blow this part off, I wouldn’t ask you to do it
if I didn’t think it had real applicable significance and that it will be
something you value later on. Be honest with yourself about these questions,
they aren’t going to be easy for a lot of us, but remember this is the fight for our heart in the journey of manhood, it is worth it!
- If
I were to ask you right now, "What are you using as the source to measure
your manhood, what would that source be?" Would it be your father,
friends, TV, books, peers, culture or something else?
- Do
you have a male figure in your life that you can be completely honest with
and share anything going on in your life with out the fear of rejection? If
not do you wish you did?
- Do
you know what you really want? If you do what is it? If you don’t your not
alone most men don’t as young adults. How do you think you could learn
what it is that you really want?
- Do
you have a hard time opening up your heart and bearing your soul to someone
trusted and loved in your life? If you do, do you think it is because you
can’t trust that person or is it just to hard to do it? If you can open up
your heart and share with someone trusted, why do you think you can do that?
Most men can’t.
- Do
you feel abnormal about your thoughts, feelings, emotions or body? If you
do, why do you think that is? If you do, do you struggle with
self-confidence and acceptance?
- What
do you fear? Why?
- What
do you enjoy doing? Why? Does it make you happy? Why?
Message Board You can discuss this article with other young men on the YHM forum, to go to this day's topic click here.
Take some time and think about this, when you are ready to go to day 2 "So who are you?" click here to go to the next day.
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