Man...I just got a feeling of all over goodness right now....
I was gonna say...whoever wrote that must know me personally.....and come to find you wrote that....man, 20-30 years from now...we gotta have book talks..movie reviews...shit...just like you said..sit around and watch our kids (my kids and your grandkids .. lol only kiddin) play together while we chill as grown men.
I know I got some growing up to do....and I appreciate your words on it... I'm changing my perspective on a lot of things just from a few threads we've been involved in today..
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Now, back to the topic.
For me, Your passage into manhood begins when you have a rite of passage into it. I come from old school. We became men at 13, formally.
I laid brick for my grandfather's house when I was 9, , so it ain't about doing for others, that's all I have ever done. I laid the foundations of being a spiritual counseler when i was 12, when i saved the life of a girl who wanted to kill herself, and Ii got her to TURN AROUND. I took care of three kids while mom worked two jobs and my step-dad fucked two women, and it never felt like a burden. My little brother could do algebra by time he was four.
I count when I took his shit down a notch (which left me with a fucked elbow) as one of my steps to maturity.
So, I'd have to say "The passage to adulthood begins when you declare it, however you declare it... and climaxes at the point society acknowledges it, which here is really 21, and far too old if you ask me." and where it goes from there is ... there it gets fuzzy.
For me, it was when my grandfather told me "Son, you are a man now. You just told your granddaddy the goddam truth, even though you were afraid to." God bless his soul and speed him homeward.
For me, Your passage into manhood begins when you have a rite of passage into it. I come from old school. We became men at 13, formally.
I laid brick for my grandfather's house when I was 9, , so it ain't about doing for others, that's all I have ever done. I laid the foundations of being a spiritual counseler when i was 12, when i saved the life of a girl who wanted to kill herself, and Ii got her to TURN AROUND. I took care of three kids while mom worked two jobs and my step-dad fucked two women, and it never felt like a burden. My little brother could do algebra by time he was four.
I count when I took his shit down a notch (which left me with a fucked elbow) as one of my steps to maturity.
So, I'd have to say "The passage to adulthood begins when you declare it, however you declare it... and climaxes at the point society acknowledges it, which here is really 21, and far too old if you ask me." and where it goes from there is ... there it gets fuzzy.
For me, it was when my grandfather told me "Son, you are a man now. You just told your granddaddy the goddam truth, even though you were afraid to." God bless his soul and speed him homeward.
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QUOTE(Lost Ghost)I know I got some growing up to do....and I appreciate your words on it... I'm changing my perspective on a lot of things just from a few threads we've been involved in today..
Talk about all over goodnes...I damn near got moist when I read that...raum summed it up best, I hope you understand what he meant...
@ CY (Poster of the week, going on PotY)
You are the greatest single thing LG will ever have, I am sure of it...If you are this damn smart (cute w/a great rack to boot /laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":lol:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />) at your age...I think I have a right to kill LG should he ever do you wrong...
These are great ideals guys, thanks for sharing...
Talk about all over goodnes...I damn near got moist when I read that...raum summed it up best, I hope you understand what he meant...
@ CY (Poster of the week, going on PotY)
You are the greatest single thing LG will ever have, I am sure of it...If you are this damn smart (cute w/a great rack to boot /laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":lol:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />) at your age...I think I have a right to kill LG should he ever do you wrong...
These are great ideals guys, thanks for sharing...
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Geeze! You went and ruined my bad mood!! Sheesh... Now I feel all happy and smiley.
Thank you. =) Hugs times a million! /:D" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt=":D" />
Thank you. =) Hugs times a million! /:D" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt=":D" />
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*11 year-old mode*
thought of your face
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thought of your face
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Ok Deeje...settle down man....
"If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?"
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