know your self...your strength

The whole of a man is a head. The whole of a woman is a body. When a man and a woman unite in marriage, a more complete unit of head and body comes to view.
The consequence of this natural fact is that we can have a better guide as to where emphasis should be placed in our preoccupation across the gender lines!
My interpretation of a man being the head is that: he should be mentally oriented to the point of using the delicate folds of his brain more than his brawns. He should be about ferreting out the secrets of life, through study and observation.
He should occupy himself with seeking answers to questions about life: it’s origins and destination. He should get wisdom and understanding because he is born to be a leader.
With him, leadership is a birthright. He needs a good head on his shoulder to steer the lives of those that are in his sphere of influence.
A man with little understanding is one who is fixated on bodily adornment. He wants to dress spiffy and flashy all the time, at the expense of his head. Making him empty headed and clueless about anything.
Now some manage to both look good bodily and mentally, no doubt, but that is the exception not the rule.
I am not suggesting that men should be careless about their look but implying that we should strengthen the areas where God has strengthened us.
A woman’s assets are more readily visible and on display on the body.
From the flowing hair to the tender eyes, soft voice and delicate frame.
Needless to mention the more aesthetic gait as opposed to men’s styless locomotion.
The rule is bodily beauty and the exception is a logical, rational mind.
Yeah, we are different and difference is good. The blunder is made when we cross the gender line in competition instead of complimenting one another.
Just as much as I see women taking their adornment seriously enough to invest precious irreplaceable time to enhance, it’s somewhat less common to see the men try to build their brains.
More common is it to see them spending precious, hard earned naira in buying up clothes and stuff that are only make-up.
Imagine men using make ups: phones, computers, wristwatches, shoes, clothes etc
Big shame if you ask me.
Some women become mental juggernauts too but most men see that as a potential source of friction (threat) because much learning has a way of making people independent minded. Most intellectuals are notoriously bad team players!
A wife needs to be submitted to her husband. Drop her ideas for hubby’s! The reason for that , I believe is self evident. We can't afford two captains in a boat.
The purpose of this article is to help us know where to spend our energies on in our talent development!
I feel like a man should have a mental life more than any other, while the women are perfectly justified in making themselves look beautiful…but I think that true beauty is that which proceeds from inside out!
True beauty is not on sale. It is acquired in the school of life. Built into the fabric of our character.
A man whose head is loaded can only look down in humility. He whose head is empty is justified to walk around making sounds of emptiness, like clanging cymbals!

Eve of Troubles!

The night that Adam thought he needed a girl
That was the Eve of our troubles!
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My shortest poem ever!