Dear men,
I am writing to you as a fellow man not to entreat you to behave like myself but instead to entrust you with the wisdom passed to me by my own superiors and mentors that you may choose to be men yourselves.
I implore you to stop chasing money. It is just money. Money is meaningless without proper investment and you should invest in the future; not only your future but the future of others so that the the value of your money is felt and fulfilled. All money you make is thanks to society, not the work of your brow, for you paid by society and when you die your money will return in one way or another to society. With this understanding you must live life not to acquire funds or even to create lavish and empty lifestyles but instead to pursue real dreams and create new bridges that never were for yourself, your families, your friends and your community.
I beg you to stop wasting time. Your life is short and precious and far more than what you've been told it is worth for there is no one who can accurately evaluate your worth and the reason is quite simple: It is dynamic. The value of your life is not dependent on your service to society but entirely dependent on your service to yourself. Do not mistake this for a call to hedonism; your life is not fulfilled solely by pleasures of the world for at the end of the day those all fade but instead by the wholeness of your person which is dictated by your success in achieving your own idea of greatness.
I beseech you to end your self-proclaimed dependency on sex. I am not saying do not love or seek love but your focus on sex is unhealthy and will undo you. As you make notches in your bed so are you a bed notch and thus while you think yourself a masculine hero you are nothing more than a small nick in someone's timeline. Engage only with those who will remember your name and will endure The Night with you rather than simply be there for one night; find partners that make you a better person instead of partners that make you a bitter person.
I plead to you to to seek other men of greater value. Do not hang around men of lesser scruples for you will become of lesser scruples even if slowly and surely so much so that eventually you will have changed in totality. You must find yourself encouraging your fellow man and growing together rather than discouraging him and growing apart; you are not a man because of how you compete with your fellow men but because of how you cooperate. You will never learn to be the best you can be if you stay with those who encourage you to never be more than you are now.
Understand it is not my intention to tell you how to live your life for you can be a man of low value with no ambitions or dreams who lives writhing in agony chasing after money and sex and physically worthless junk. That does not make you less of a man but it does make you a man of poor choices and empty suffering who is lonely and has nothing to covet but becomes covetous himself. Your value as a man is completely up to you, it is not set, it is not decided by society or your friends or your family or anyone else, and while that is a lot to consider I hope you will so that someday you may say "I was successful and am content." whatever that means to you.
- Anon
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