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INSPIRATIONAL HUMANS
Men in the Modern Day
What it means to be the Man in the Arena
The seventh day of the coming month of November will mark my twenty-fourth birthday. While this may seem a random way to start off an article, (it is by the way) this is a fact which has led me to undertake some degree of introspection. Having spoken to my parents, aunts, uncles, and other such older friends and family, the general consensus I received was that I should be have been considered an adult for all intents and purposes from the age of twenty-three onwards.
So while the seventh will mark my birthday, it will also to a certain extent mark a full year of adulthood, a full year as my father puts it of having been a man in the real world. A startling thought to come upon while drinking a can of beer by a canal, to say the least.
This is a strange time to be a man (or a woman for that matter, I am merely speaking from my own perspective) as so many of the milestones which normally mark out a man’s life are still well beyond the grasp of your everyday twenty-three-year-old.
Can I afford a mortgage? — not a chance in any form of hell. Do I have a stable well paying job? — not even close. Am I in a committed long-term relationship and looking at getting engaged or even married in the near future…
