Are you a man? Or just a boy?

When we decide to become musicians, we learn, practice, play, and create music. We achieve a certain level of mastery, and then we call ourselves musicians.

When we want to become athletes, we eat right, train, compete, and win. Only after that do we call ourselves athletes.

But somehow, we think we don't need to do anything to call ourselves men. We just exist and think it is enough.

I think there are many things we should go through and do to call ourselves men.

Of course, we can just call it, without doing anything, in the same way we can call ourselves musicians without even learning an instrument. But no one will agree or listen to us. And just calling ourselves men will not change anything either.

We are boys, and we become men when we understand life. For that, we need to go through hardships, struggles, breakups, and failures, to conquer our fears. We need to learn to take responsibility for everything that happens in our lives. To learn our strengths and weaknesses. To learn how to be honest with ourselves and with others. To learn to communicate with people. To lead, to create, to love, to take care. To become detached and free from addictions and influences. To become smart, strong, jacked, competent...

Being a man is like being a king, and it requires a lot of work!