Defining Manhood and Responsibility

When do you become a man? When you get a driver's license?

Like, what do we do? You're 16, we give you a driver's license.

Okay, well, like, you get a job? Like, when do you become a man?

You become a man when you become responsible for other

people.

And part of that is taking accountability.

I grew up in a

culture

that told me going to war made you a man.

Going to prison and coming back makes you a man.

Making a million dollars makes you a man, you know? And it doesn't.

You eat every day. Yes, sir. Got a roof over your head. Yes, sir.

Got clothes on your back. Yes, sir. Why you think that is? Because of you.

Hell, I know it's because of me. But why do you think that is?

Because we like you.

Like you.

I go out of here every morning. I bust my butt putting up with them

crackers every day because I like you.

You're about the biggest fool I ever saw. It's my job.

It's my responsibility. A man is supposed to take care of

his family.

You're a man. You are a man. Stand up and

be a man. Make the hard decisions.

Make the sacrifices.

Make the unpopular decisions and become comfortable in your

own skin.

And if you are not a person that you are comfortable being alone with,

that is the one person in this universe that you have full

power, full right and full responsibility to change.