Provider and Protector - My Will to Power - Part 2
In a previous post, I was trying to find my meaning in life, despite all of my accomplishments and successes in life so far. Now, I’ve discovered my life-long meaning to live: to be a provider and protector.
PROVIDER AND PROTECTOR
Consider this: for over 300,000 years of human evolution, men have biologically evolved to be protectors and providers for their families and tribes. Unfortunately, over the last few decades male biological traits have under attack in media and education. Positive male traits, such as confidence, strength, risk-taking, and dominance have been shamed and ridiculed as “toxic.”
Isn’t that fascinating, when society needs men to be tough, strong and brave, those traits are venerated. When society wants to not have men strive and to be handicapped, strength and toughness are shamed as early as elementary school. As boys, we’re taught to be more like girls: “sit down, be polite, don’t be too rough, don’t question authority, just don’t what you’re told, keep your head down, and hopefully you’ll survive.” Those are feminine traits that are developed to survive a violent and inherently dangerous role. As men, we have larger body frames and muscles, which allow us to absorb more physical pain, mete out more physical pain onto the world and others and still survive. Having a larger physical frame and muscles allow men to provide resources, such as meat from hunting dangerous animals.
In summary, men are built as weapons, to protect and provide for their families and tribes. College degrees and social status are just filler and are not foundational to men. This is an anathema to what we’re preached in modern society. Unfortunately, our minds and actions become clouded, fogged and over-complicated unnecessarily in modernity.
WHAT’S MY WILL TO POWER?
To become bigger, greater and more powerful as a man…as nature intended it. That’s it. That’s my meaning in life at this point:
to protect my wife and daughter from any threat that may harm them
to provide them with a plenty of resources to enjoy their lives
Everything else is filler. I’m not going to defy 300,000 years of biological evolution. That’s the point of going to the gym and getting bigger and stronger. That’s the point of working and making money. Sure, I still enjoy reading, writing, weightlifting and socializing with friends. But all of that is secondary to my family.
My family is my meaning in life.