31.5.12

Mythology to Modernity

Have you ever looked up while reading a book or writing notes and met the eyes of a girl across from you? Your heart does that little skip-jump as your breathing sharpens. You immediately hope that she finds you attractive. Then with great fear and hesitation you consider that maybe your hair is messed up, your shirt is on backwards, or someone is giving you bunny ears. She looks away and you conclude that she was just glancing around the room when you happened to look up and that you not remarkable or especially noticeable. However, she is remarkable.
Every woman is a goddess.
All women have their special brand of beauty. Superficiality is usually the easiest trait to find but rarely the most valuable treasure. Hidden inside, each woman possess a priceless gem. A delightful eagerness for life, undaunted adventure, charming wit, remarkable interests, or inspiring character, all these lend themselves for admiration. Each is unique with the exact combination that makes them attractively who they are. Each is pricelessly beautiful.
Because of this unparalleled beauty, all women deserve the attention of men. Perhaps not the special, amorous attention associated with many duel gender relations, but recognition of her beauty should occur. An authentic conversation, more than the weather or her current mood, will usually turn up a sparkle, a single  gleam of her gem. This prized stone cannot simply be pulled forcefully out and examined! No, it must be worked free and carefully praised. All women have this gem though size, shape, color, and type can vary more spectacularly than any rainbow.
The revealed charm and prized beauty enable any woman to turn a man's head. However, this is a two-sided phrase and not in a physical sense. The first angle is force. Some women, characterized as controlling, use brute force to shake a man's foundation and construct insecurities that enable her views to flourish and dominate. She uses the power of womanhood to dictate a man's movements to conform to her will though commonly in disguise. From a man's view, a more agreeable method is subtly. This women uses suggestion, possibly enticement, to tilt a man's position to or fro. She can incline him in the more desired direction and is satisfied when he reacts, seemingly, of his own accord. Silver tongued, this is the type of women ancient mythologies characterized in their stories and gave her supernatural powers. She is not supernatural, merely a woman, and commands a respect of her own.
Holding these special qualities in mind: beauty, attention, and strength, man needs to concede his love for womankind as a whole. We should cherish and adore the women put in our lives because of the specialty each possesses. All are created in God's image and are, thus, heiresses to His kingdom. They are all actual, physical princesses deserving of our respect and care. Treat women like the princesses they are; very few have ever complained of it.
If a woman is not treated like a goddess, woe to man. A woman's wrath rages as the storm. It possesses uncharted energies and fierceness. While it may appear to slow, she is merely charging for a second blow with pent up forces. The end is unknowable. A woman's anger knows no bounds. The bitterness and resentment of a single woman has been known to completely destroy a man's entire life. Nor can this disturbance be easily settled. Like the oceans after a storm, only time can reduce the ferocity of the waves.
However, without women, society itself turns on end. The most recognized examples of this, the early American frontiers, show men living free and lax lives. Filth, foulness, laziness, and drunkenness abound. Once women entered the scene, settlement and regularity occurred. (Personally, I've concluded this has something to do with each paragraph prior to this. A woman's beauty attracts the men, her charm encourages men to give continuous attention, and she can "suggest" specific changes. These combined, a man must regulate his life to please and praise a woman.) Thus, the absence of women means the utter collapse of society itself.
Women are beautiful creatures that possess powers outside the limited, focused boundaries of a man's mind. Full recognition to each individual should not be above our doing. Chivalry should not die even as women gain their sought equality in society because they are inherently the focus and motivation behind a man's goals.

All women are goddesses.



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Agatha Tyche

30.5.12

A Small Bang

     The beginning is multiplicitly the easiest and hardest thing to achieve. It sets the boundaries and establishes the foundation that all future work will  rest upon. As the guilds of medieval Europe enforced, the masterpiece marked the beginning of a man's independent career to which all his other work must either match or surpass. The beginning remains, nonetheless, the first stone placed which opens up the full range of possibilities. Alternatives are viable and characteristic distinctions are, as yet, undefined. The enthusiasm of the outset holds the enticing mystery of freedom, openness, and allowance. Thus, I will start at the beginning as all things must.


     Two things should prompt a man forward through life. 


     The first sets the limits for that life and is recognized as the provider and arbitrator between a man and his woes. The deity of a man's life, that eternal being lending encouragement and support while supplying tests and obstacles to challenge even the strongest and bravest, this God deserves a hat-tipped his way. Pia pium, godliness, reflects the purpose of existence and the path that is traversed over a lifetime. However, even as we strive to become more godly in word, thought, and action, these words, pia pium, reflect a much deeper meaning in conduit. Holy. Pious. Honest. Patriotic. Dutiful. 
     Each of these words describes a small, yet necessary, cornerstone to the foundation of the phrase and is a part of its origin from the beginning. Holiness, to be set apart for a sacred purpose, defines a man's life as distinct, unique, and purpose-filled. Piety, religious steadfastness and conviction, cherishes religious and traditional ideals within. Honesty, truth and integrity, praises a man who confronts the reality before him, unwavering regardless of challenge. Patriotism, the love for and recognition of your community and culture above that of yourself, requires fine-tuned priorities to develop the rightness of emotion and reason in every aspect of life. Patriotism ties closely with duty. Duty, to do what needs to be done even when obstacles extract high costs, is nearly synonymous with sacrifice. 
"The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training - sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death, he discloses those divine attributes which his Maker gave when He created man in His own image. No physical courage and no brute instinct can take the place of the Divine help which can alone sustain him. (Gen. Douglas MacArthur)"
     Although not a technical derivative, the perfect word to summarize and define pia pium is sacrifice. God sacrificed to give you life, physical and immortal. Following religious, national, and cultural ideals always involves sacrifice of self. Duty, a higher calling, often involves the sacrifice of life. Duty for family, a father's love. Duty for country, the defense of those you love against a great threat. Duty for religion, involving ostracism from society and potentially martyrdom. Sacrifice is one of the highest callings of a man's life.
     The second supplies the internal motivation for a man to prioritize and achieve. A strength hidden not only within his physical form a but also within the character of the man himself. This is what pushes a man forward through depression, the desperate charge, ultimate ruin. This is the gut-wrenching urge to never quit, never be subdued, and to maintain control over his surroundings. Virile agitur: manliness. A more accurate translation is "the manly thing is being done." A true man cannot sit by and watch the world change around him quietly. He constantly reacts and exerts himself in a way that is distinct and forceful. Suck it up and do what needs done. Period.


     Two things should direct a man forward through life: Godliness and Manliness.


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Agatha Tyche