Toxic: A Book for Men
Jon Parker
(Independently published, Sept. 10, 2019)
You are stifled. You may not even realize it right now, but the society that surrounds you seeks to stifle you, suffocate you, and box you in. The rules they implement are walls designed to close in around you, crushing you and your spirit into oblivion. They create rules that they say are for safety, but what they do is sanitize you, keep you away from growth.What will you do about that? Will you sit idly by and let the world control you? Will you let society tell you who you are or how to be a man? I thought not.Man must do that which his heart calls him to do, otherwise, he will lose it. "Don't give into your fears. If you do you won't be able to talk to your heart," says Coelho in The Alchemist. The loss of one's heart is death in this life, and this is what you see when you look at your surroundings, modern Man: death. The rules supposedly meant to promote safety in truth often promote the dying of the soul. Go forward, follow your hearts calling, and if they call you "TOXIC" for being who you were created to be, then laugh and forge forward, for you know which of you is toxic, which of you is dead, and which of you is alive!