A few men will look stunned and say, “I have no honor.” Ask what they’re going to do about it and they look confused, devastated. Men cannot respect themselves or live at peace when they know they live without honor. It’s a biological prerequisite for mental health.
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So where do they go to learn it? Who’s teaching about it? When they’re want to be better, how do they do it? Internal codes can help some, but not all can puzzle it through so easily. Who’s teaching you? Where did you learn? Do you even know what honor is yourself?
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If no one is talking about it or teaching it, how do we as men get better? How do we fix the spiraling drug problems as men numb themselves? How do we fix the suicide rate as men surrender to despair? Honor is at least a significant piece of this, men living without self-respect.
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Any discussion on helping men and healing men’s mental health must include (if not begin with) honor. Current socialization states that men are born honorless dogs who feed on women their entire lives without empathy or moral scruples. Are you raising your boys this way?
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What are you doing to fix or maintain your honor? Who keeps you accountable? Who checks you when you slip and helps you atone? What are you doing to teach honor to other men and enforce the standard? Do you let everything slide and watch your own family plunge into despair?
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Do you live by honor, or is it a nice idea to daydream about as you live a life of lies and endless compromises? Do you have honor? Are you an honorable man? If not, fix it. You can’t live that way. You aren’t living. Just surviving. Be honorable.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
How do I regain honor that is lost? How do I live an honorable life?
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Replying to @DeadManSergius @TheGr8Scot
What would a man have to do to earn back your respect? For most, it’s taking one concrete step that costs him something. That step earns back honor and respect. Followed by another step. More honor. And each step after that builds it. All begins with one step. One decision.
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Honor happens every day in every decision. When you fail, then you decide to fix it, you regain your honor.
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As for learning how to live with honor in the first place: Honor is by definition upholding one’s principles even above one’s own life. Never surrendering them. You must know your principles. And you must hold to them when they cost you. The dearer the cost, the greater honor.
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Your principles are the ideals you are most ashamed of people saying you don’t have. Honor. Courage. Integrity. Compassion. Whatever twists in your heart to know you’ve failed to uphold it, that you sacrificed that principle for more money or so someone wouldn’t be mad.
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Find your principles. When you must choose, any choice at all in life, consider your principles. Ask which choice aligns with them. Then do it. Even if it costs you everything If you fall short, when you realize it, make it right. Even if it costs you everything This is honor.
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