Here lies your road map
Your GPS to being a man
1. Always be a leader. Responsibility is sometimes stressful but more rewarding to lead to victory than follow the blind into a losing battle.
2. Define your morals early and stand by them. Stand for something or fall for anything. I think that’s how the saying goes.
3. Understand you are a diamond and so you must expect pressure. True diamonds never break under pressure they just shine.
4. There is no right. There is no wrong. There is only the truth. I learned early from a great man, the highest truth is being true to you. No one likes copies, stay original.
5. While some women react purely emotional, remember that if you are doing right continue no matter what anyone tells you. Not even me.
6. Every woman has the potential to be a queen. I stress this because as young men we often forget it takes a woman to carry a child, it takes a mother to raise one.
7. You will fall. You will touch rock bottom. People will push you even as you are already falling. The beautiful thing about rock bottom is that you can only go up. So always look up, always see the positive and realize that it could always be worse.
While I cant predict the future
I know you are destined for greatness
Our bond is deeper than a middle name
Or linage
DNA doesn’t define love
Because if it did
I wouldn’t have had the great man show me the way that did
I can not walk your steps for you
And I can not motivate you to be a man
However, you are never alone
And I can open the door to your beginning
The first step is always the hardest
The first step…is on you Da’Mond.
Love,
Da’Mond Senior
©Paris “Chi†Butler, “Malikâ€. All Rights Reserved. 12/2/2013.