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Like A Knight In Shining Armor... From A Long Time Ago.
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Like A Knight In Shining Armor... From A Long Time Ago. A knight isn't just a guy in armor swinging a sword and riding a . That may be what video games and television wants us to think, but a knight can wear slacks and a t-shirt and still be a knight. It's not what you look like, but who you are. One of my personal favorite online names is Sir Lionmane... and what's wrong with wanting to emulate a Knight and a Lion? If you ask me, we need more knights and lions in this world. There's something to be said for chivalry. I'd like to think I'm a chivalrous kind of guy. I will usually hold the door open for other people unless my arms are full, and even then I'll brace a foot against the door as best as I can. If I see that someone is obviously cold and doesn't have a jacket, I'll usually give them mine... I don't mind the cold so much, and I know what it's like to "need and not have". So many people helped me when I was down and broke that I couldn't possibly pay them all back, so I make it a point to pay it forward if I can. I just think it's a good thing to be a good guy. Treating people honorably, speaking truthfully, following through with what you promise, defending family and friends, working hard and completing what you start, stepping forward to right a wrong with both words and actions... these are knightly virtues. Does it cost so much for a person to do these things? It might at times, but most of the time it really doesn't. And in the times it does, those are your scars of battle against the evils of this world, and there's nothing wrong with wearing those scars proudly. Knowing that doing the right thing will often put you in conflict with people who are determined to do wrong even in spite of themselves, a knight must arm and armor himself to fight that evil. In this day and age, that's not with full-plate-mail, shield, and sword... it's with knowledge, with wisdom, with a healthy body and a sound mind, with education, and with a strong sense of who you are. Some martial arts training couldn't hurt, either, 'cause there are some serious wackos out there. Does it make you a hero? No. To my thinking, doing these things makes you a decent human being, and to not at least try to be like a knight is to sell yourself short and hurt your own soul. In many cases, it can hurt your body and mind too, since psychologists generally agree that the opposite of those knightly virtues typically leads to all sorts of problems; mind, body, and spirit. There's a law of the Universe called The Law of Attraction. It's much like the Christian<b> philosophy </font></b>of "do unto others" and "you reap what you sow", or the Hindu belief of Karma. In basic terms, The Law of Attraction states that "like attracts like"... positive attracts positive, negative attracts negative. If you do good things, good things will happen. If you do bad things, bad things will happen. Now, naturally that's not a cut-and-dried kind of thing, because Life happens to everyone, the rain falls on the just and the unjust, the best person on Earth can have the worst luck ever... Life happens. There isn't much you can do about it. But it DOES make perfect sense, and in fact it is a scientific and spiritually significant fact that The Law of Attraction is real, potent, and is a pretty good indicator of the kind of person you are. Think about it: smokers hang around smokers, drinkers hang around drinkers, Christians hang around Christians, Muslims hang around Muslims... we naturally gravitate around people who are like us. Why do you think one of the first rules of being wealthy is "Go hang around wealthy people and act like them as much as possible"? It's not a coincidence. Hell, a famous book called Think and Grow Rich, written by a man named Napoleon Hill, was almost entirely based on that concept, and that book is practically the Bible to many wealthy people. So. Let's say you make a decision to embrace knightly virtues. You decide that you want more positivity and good things in your life. You can be the nucleus of a better world to live in simply by trying to do just that... be a better person. Your positivity will influence other people to be positive. Will it change overnight? Of course not. But over weeks, months, even years? You bet. And those people will be more positive, influencing other people to act more like a knight to others, which in turn will make other people happy. Of course, bad things will happen. And when they do, the others in your life that you positively influenced will come to help you. It's circular. Even if they don't, you can still choose to do the right thing, because when it all comes down to it, you are in charge of your own destiny, and you decide the kind of life you lead. I'm poor. I'm average-looking. I have no girlfriend. My barely talk to me and are hundreds of miles away. My family barely speaks to each other. I live in a tiny room that smells like a cat box, in my parent's house because they need me and I'm too broke to live on my own. Most of my clothes are hand-me-downs and out of style, my furniture is beat up and falling apart, and all of my friends are so far away that I have to plan day trips to go visit them. And yet, I am a knight. Because even though there are times I let my circumstances get the best of me, I will still do the right things and stand for what I believe. I will risk the rejection of others and do what might be unpopular, because it's the right thing to do. I will do more than complain on Facebook and Twitter and whatever other social networking there is, and actually DO something about what might be wrong. And good things do and have been coming my way because of this choice I've made to always do the right thing. I may not always be able to do it, and I may fail horribly at it, but I can look myself in the mirror and honestly say I tried. Sometimes, I might even be able to say I succeeded. Not every knight wins his battles. But every knight can say he fought to right a wrong, and was the good against the evil. Can you say that? I hope you can. I want you to. We are living in a world of negativity, and it has to stop. It is time to step forward and be heard. It's time to speak up when someone says something hateful, no matter who it's against. It's time to step between the bully and his victim. It's time to speak out against the wrongs that are being perpetrated by our own government against its own people. It's time to turn off the TV shows like Jerry Springer and Jackass and reality-TV that isn't real at all, and all those idiot-shows that glamorize anger and violence and stupid stunts for attention. It's time to turn off the songs that preach racial hatred and violence, that call women bitches and whores, that glorify drugs and self-mutilation, and listen to... hell, ANYTHING else! All that negativity. It's affecting you, a hell of a lot more than you know. You CAN be positive! You don't have to be naive about it, but what's so wrong with a smile at a stranger? What's wrong with kind words instead of nasty attitudes? Try shaking a hand or clapping someone on the shoulder in greeting. Would it really be so tough to not snap at people just because you're having a bad day or a rough life or you don't like your job or whatever is eating at your gut? Believe me when I say... that only hurts you. And it hurts you a lot. You only get what you give, so if you're giving out bad, you're going to get bad back. So try giving out some good for a change. There's nothing wrong with being a knight. People might throw mud on your armor to try and lower you to their level, but mud washes off of steel... they're the ones with the stained hands. .  Your Friendly Neighborhood King of the Jungle, The Lion. READ THIS! ------>>>lionthatroared I DARE you to read my blog and attempt to be unchanged by sheer, utter AWESOMENESS!!! It's like Kung-Fu Panda fighting Super Models with heavy metal music pumping in the background... hyped up on Rockstar energy drinks! And... whipped cream with chocolate sprinkles! And... laser-guided sex toys are probably involved! And... and... oh, I know... I'm pretty sure Chuck Norris roundhouse-kicked it at some point! |
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Well written, Lion. I agree with just about everything you wrote here. Something about you lie down with dogs and you can expect to get fleas... this post is sort of like the corollary to me. I found this meme a while back. I thought you might enjoy it. 2022... it HAS be better, right?!
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