A Good Man is Hard to Find…
So, I have this paper I have to write about what my ideal mate selection would be. And since this introspective and analytical kind of topic is something someone like me always obsesses over, I thought, maybe just maybe, I would have (somewhere over the span of the last few years) written something that I could tweak into a proper paper…I did find something, maybe not Lifespan Development quality, but it is rather interesting when you find something you wrote a long time ago and still totally agree with it. It’s like you wrote it or something….imagine that.
“A Good Man is Hard to Find”
[ Written October 2009, after watching Master in Command]
Today we watched a movie which depicted the glory of the British Navy. Courageous men who fought with valor, respect, and honor. Men who were good, noble, brave and true… men who worked hard with their hands and fought fiercely for what they believed in.
Sometimes I feel like I am living in the wrong century. It seems the kind of man that I want isn’t real…or at least alive in this time period. Of course a Russell Crow movie is bound to over exaggerate those noble, goodly traits of a man long ago….but still. I am sure they are not too far off.
Give me one such man as that now days! Do they even exist? A man who is not glued to an electronic box of some kind, a man who dares to lift a finger of responsibility, a man who is not self-gratifying, obsessed, or conformed to this shallow, spoiled, materialistic culture. A man who respects women as ladies, a man who gives them honor, a man who tenderly treasures them as the delicate and loving souls that we are….or at least that we should be. (Don’t even get me started on the women of today…)
I ask you, why is chivalry dead? Why do people not fight for anything anymore? Why do people not stand up and do what is right—when they do not profit from it, when no one else sees? What has happened to us? Why is it that everything must be easy and fast? Why must everything be centered on saving money, spending money, gossip, entertainment, trivialities, and emptiness? Why must the pieces just fall into place? It just feels like we lead cookie cutter lives…all the same.
Is there not a good man left in this world?
I want more than what my world is offering me. I want more than $8 movie tickets, I want more than Facebook, I want more than malls, I want more than commercials, I want more than text messaging, I want more than the suburbs, I want more than Stouffer’s, I want more than video games, and sitcoms, and fast food and $90 sweaters… I want so, so much more than that. Maybe I ask the impossible. I want a good man. A man that seems to not exist. A man like those who had honor and lived so long ago…
